The Tetsuya Odori dance event began on Wednesday in Gujo, Gifu Prefecture, as part of the Gujo Odori, one of Japan’s major ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average slipped on Thursday, pulling back from the record high reached in the previous session, amid ...

Watching his dad make a brand-new miniature train car look old, placing the wooden parts to weather in the sun and rain, ...

Wildfires caused by arsonists or thunderstorms and fanned by a heatwave and strong winds wreaked destruction across southern ...

Scientists along Peru’s central Pacific coast are sounding the alarm that more action is needed to protect seabirds, sea ...

Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up Wednesday to protest the increased police presence after the White ...

J-pop star Kenshin Kamimura was found guilty by a Hong Kong court on Wednesday of the indecent assault in March of a woman ...

In a remote rainforest in Australia, home to deadly snakes, spiders and creepy-crawlies, scientists have discovered a new ...

Chile’s central and southern coastlines are facing erosion that could cause at least 10 beaches to disappear within a decade, ...

A reduction to 15% of a tariff on imported Japanese automobiles could take effect around 50 days after a bilateral agreement ...

Shohei Ohtani returned to the Angel Stadium mound with 4 1/3 innings of five-hit, four-run ball for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Wednesday night in his first pitching appearance in Anaheim since he left ...

There is a classical piece that 98-year-old pianist Reiko Kinashi has played since before World War II — Schumann’s ...