The Akita Prefectural Government in northern Japan has more than doubled the number of employees assigned to deal with bears.

The area around an iconic dog statue at Shibuya Station in central Tokyo has been cordoned off one day before Halloween to ...

US President Donald Trump met with his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in South Korea on Thursday. It was their first ...

A traditional mud-smearing festival to chase out evil has been held on Miyakojima, in the southern Japanese prefecture of ...

Saburo the cat lives in a lovely vineyard, but her rival Shiroo is nearby. Can they get along? Meanwhile, another cat lives ...

Tokyo's Nikkei 225 climbed again on Thursday, posting a record closing high for the second straight day. Many investors took the view that the US-China summit had helped to ease trade tensions.

The United Nations is rushing to deliver aid to areas in the Caribbean devastated by Hurricane Melissa. A UN coordinator in the region says the damage to infrastructure is unprecedented.

The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency says movement has been detected at Iran's nuclear sites. Iran has suspended cooperation with the IAEA, saying the agency's activities served as an ...

Women who free dive to harvest seafood are called "Haenyeo" in South Korea. But on Jeju Island, their numbers are dwindling. Efforts are increasing to attract new recruits to preserve this ...

Authorities in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward don't want any crowd trouble during Halloween. So they've hidden one of the area's most popular meeting spots.