The Dalai Lama, the exiled spiritual leader of Tibetan Buddhism, turned 90 on Sunday. About 7,000 people including monks and ...

Seismic activity remains high around a remote island chain in Japan's southwestern prefecture of Kagoshima. Two strong jolts ...

Japan's Emperor and Empress arrived in the Mongolian capital of Ulaanbaatar on Sunday. This is their first visit to the ...

Wolfgang Löger, from Austria, decided to become a taxi driver in Tokyo when he was 50. After several years on the road, he’s ...

A man has stabbed two women to death at the bar where they worked in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture. Our site uses cookies ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency says earthquakes with estimated magnitudes of 4.8 and 5.4 occurred on the island of ...

The death toll from flooding in the southern US state of Texas has risen to more than 40. Over 20 people, including children ...

Residents of a remote island chain in southwestern Japan have been evacuating as earthquakes continue, and a second group has ...

French authorities have opened the River Seine in Paris to public swimming for the first time in about 100 years.

Japanese airline companies will ask their passengers not to put their mobile batteries away in overhead bins for fire safety.

US President Donald Trump says his administration will start sending out letters to countries on Friday notifying them of the ...

US tech billionaire Elon Musk has conducted a social media poll on his plan to create a new political party. The move came on ...