A joint research team by Japanese and Thai universities says it has become the world's first to find microplastics in the ...

The Governor of Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan has expressed his view that there were no illegalities in his election ...

Talks have started among countries on the first-ever United Nations treaty to reduce plastic pollution amid a split in views ...

The organizers of Rally Japan have been fined for failure to take reasonable measures that resulted in an unsafe situation ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has called for air defense systems capable of intercepting Russia's new ballistic ...

Japan's government has suggested a new target to reduce the county's greenhouse gas emissions by 60 percent in fiscal 2035 ...

Reuters and other news media say a cargo plane crashed near an airport in the capital of Lithuania, one of the Baltic ...

A tourist boom appears to have put the sacred deer in Japan's ancient capital Nara on edge. And quite a few are hitting out.

Japan's ruling parties have agreed to an opposition party request to raise the tax-free annual income amount. But that could ...

The South Korean government has held its own ceremony to honor people who worked at the gold mines on Japan's Sado Island, ...

Japan's ruling parties have begun separate talks on tax reforms for the next fiscal year starting in April. The focus is a ...

Authorities in the Philippines are tightening security around President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. after his deputy said she ...