Berlin-based writer Yoko Tawada was awarded the Nelly Sachs Prize, a biennial prize in Germany for a person of letters who ...

Two alleged gunmen who attacked a Hanukkah event at Sydney’s Bondi Beach had travelled to the Philippines before the assault ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average dropped more than 1% on Tuesday, weighed down by declines in chip and other artificial ...

President Donald Trump sued the BBC on Monday for defamation over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed ...

Taiwan’s global credibility is on the line and parliament should withdraw a series of laws the government opposes, President ...

As tensions deepen between economic superpowers China and the United States, and growing concerns over supply chain ...

A fire broke out at a sauna facility in the Akasaka district of Tokyo’s Minato Ward on Monday, leaving two customers dead.

Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party and its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party (Nippon Ishin no Kai), decided ...

A magnitude 4.4 earthquake occurred off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture at around 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday. No tsunami was ...

Twin giant pandas Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei at Ueno Zoological Gardens in Taito Ward, Tokyo, will be returned to China in late ...

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said in an interview with U.S. media organization Newsmax on Monday that Venezuelan ...

A father and son are suspected by officials to have killed 15 people on a popular Australian beach, shocking a country where ...