The Naha District Court on Friday sentenced a 25-year-old U.S. Air Force serviceman to five years in prison for kidnapping and sexually assaulting a girl under the age of 16...

The Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner, Komeito, have agreed to postpone a decision on when to raise income tax rates to secure funding for higher defense expenditures,...

With President-elect Donald Trump’s victory in the United States, international climate diplomacy is at a crossroads — similarly to when in 2017, during Trump’s first term, the United States withdrew...

Bill Belichick sat on the 295-foot (90-meter) yacht belonging to Atlanta Falcons owner Arthur Blank, hoping (and quite sure) that this was the man who was going to give him...

TAIPEI – Beijing has unveiled a new tactic on Taiwan, the democratic island it claims as its own, officials and experts say: large-scale drills with no fanfare to normalize a...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday that holding hearings of a parliamentary political ethics panel in a way that is open to the media is “one method” of allaying public...

PARIS – French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday named Francois Bayrou his third prime minister of 2024, tasking the veteran centrist with steering the country out of its second major...

The central government on Friday updated its guidelines for disaster shelter operations, with the update calling for ensuring there is one toilet for every 20 people, among other measures. The...

Japan’s plans to develop a next-generation fighter jet alongside Britain and Italy have taken a significant step forward, with the top companies involved formally agreeing Friday to establish a joint...