Osaka Mayor Toru Hashimoto aims to retract his remark that U.S. servicemen in Okinawa should use the local adult entertainment industry to avoid committing sex crimes.

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe pledged during an official visit to Myanmar on Saturday that “the whole of Japan,” its public and private sectors alike, will support the emerging country’s reform process to ensure its continued democratic and economic advancement. Abe held talks the same ...

The 11 countries involved in the Trans-Pacific Partnership have agreed to hold the next round of free-trade talks in Kuala Lumpur from July 15 to 25, extending the meeting to include Japan as the 12th member. The United States and the 10 other member ...

Up to 30 researchers are feared to have suffered internal radiation exposure after an experiment went awry at a Japan Atomic Energy Agency facility.

Syria's government has agreed to attend a U.S.- and Russian-brokered peace conference, Moscow says, but strong skepticism persists on both sides of the country's civil war.

Having taken five Volkswagen Beetles and compressed them into spheres, artist Ichwan Noor was always going to grab attention at the inaugural Hong Kong Art Basel.

Breaking a week of silence, Toronto Mayor Rob Ford denied Friday that he smokes crack cocaine and said he is not an addict after a video purported to show him using the drug surfaced. The mayor of Canada’s largest city did not say whether ...

The last of the brothers accused of creating an infamous Mexican drug cartel pleaded guilty Friday to helping send hundreds of millions of dollars in proceeds from the U.S., marking one of the final milestones in an investigation that began nearly two decades ago. ...