Ten people were taken to hospital, with nine of them critically injured, after a stabbing rampage on a train in Britain on Saturday, ...

JR East on Saturday marked exactly 100 years of operation of the iconic Yamanote loop line train that encircles central Tokyo.

A two-run lead was starting to slip away from the Los Angeles Dodgers in the ninth inning -- along with their chance to force ...

By Bill Emmott, independent writer, lecturer and international affairs consultant ...

A former bank branch with an imposing exterior and gorgeous interior constructed in the late Meiji era (1868-1912) overlooked the busy tra ...

Leaders of 21 Asia-Pacific Rim nations wrapped up their annual summit Saturday with a statement underscoring regional ec ...

The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum decided Saturday at its summit in South Korea that Japan will chair APEC ...

Japan's Mone Chiba topped the women's short program at the Skate Canada International on Friday in her first outing in t ...

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With Beijing wary about how new Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, known as a China hawk, will handle policies t ...

While the Japanese public's expectations for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, who advocates stricter regulations on foreign ...

John Wills (1921-1993). From "Haiku World. An International Poetry Almanac" (1996) by William J. Higginson.