Southern Japan was hit by a strong earthquake on Monday that authorities said did not warrant the kind of megaquake warning that was triggered for the first time last year.

A red dragon, a feline deity and dogs and cats cover Tanyapong Jaikham's rice paddies in northern Thailand, a living tribute ...

It is actually unlikely that you will happen across a crested ibis in the wild. The native toki of Sado went extinct over ...

She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata, an official in charge of elderly policies, said Itooka died Dec. 29 at a care home in Ashiya, ...

Prized Japanese right-hander Roki Sasaki is drawing interest from 20 major league teams and is expected to join one of them in mid-January, his agent, Joel Wolfe of Wasserman Group, told reporters ...

Night - Cloudy with a 51% chance of precipitation. Winds from WNW to W at 5 to 7 mph (8 to 11.3 kph). The overnight low will be 36 °F (2.2 °C). Mostly cloudy with a high of 50 °F (10 °C ...

Dec. 27 (UPI) --Warren "Red" Upton, the oldest living Pearl Harbor survivor who was serving aboard the USS Utah during the 1941 Japanese surprise attack, has died at age 105, a veterans group has ...

TOKYO -- Japanese beverage maker Kirin Holdings has launched an artificial intelligence-controlled system that has the potential to halve the number of staff required for picking work, which is ...

Other places such as Mount Fuji and Himeji Castle – Japan’s largest castle, located in western Hyogo Prefecture – are proposing to raise entry fees for visitors.

Formed through a partnership between Federal Land, Inc., a trusted local developer with over five decades of experience, and Japan’s Nomura Real Estate Development Co., Ltd., which boasts more than 65 ...

The Red Sox may not have to come close to $200 million to land Bregman. All they have to do is outstrip other teams in the running. And it has seemed at times as though the Tigers were their main ...

Red flashing lights are seen on a police car. (Mainichi/Kazuhisa Soneda) SAO PAULO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese man was killed in a recent robbery in Sao Paulo and the suspect was detained Thursday ...