Farmers and volunteers started planting rice on Saturday at terraced paddies on the coast of the Noto Peninsula, central ...

Japan's Emperor Emeritus Akihito has been released from hospital in Tokyo after undergoing a heart examination.

US President Donald Trump says the 10-percent baseline tariff will basically remain in place on all countries, even after ...

The Group of Seven nations and the European Union have urged India and Pakistan to exercise maximum restraint as military ...

Clashes between India and Pakistan are intensifying as both sides are accusing each other of carrying out drone attacks.

Ueno Kagefumi, the former Japanese Ambassador to the Holy See, gives us insight on the new US-born pope's unprecedented ascent, and his challenges ahead.

The ruling People Power Party, on the other hand, dropped the candidate it picked in a party convention last week, and restarted its nomination process. The party held an emergency news conference and ...

The leaders of Britain, France, Germany and Poland say they will visit Kyiv together for talks with Ukrainian President ...

Hundreds of people in Gunma Prefecture, central Japan, have paraded with a special giant snake-shaped portable shrine for the ...

Pakistan says Indian forces carried out a missile attack targeting three of its military bases, but reports no damage.

More than 80% of the country's 100 million inhabitants are Catholic. Filipinos nationwide are celebrating the new pope.

Japanese weather officials are forecasting extremely heavy rain with thunder in western and eastern parts of the country ...