California voters in 2008 approved nearly $10 billion in bond money to build a high-speed rail line connecting Los Angeles ...

The proposals for social security system reforms that the government aims to achieve in the current Diet session are being ...

Asian shares traded mostly lower Thursday after a quiet day on Wall Street, where the S&P 500 added to its record. Worries ...

A court found the assailant guilty of attempted murder in the 2023 attack on Fumio Kishida, then prime minister.

A Japanese court has convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison ...

A court here has sentenced former hospital employee to life in prison for sexually assaulting 10 girls, including elementary ...

TOKYO — A Japanese court on Wednesday convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan’s former Prime Minister Fumio ...

Brazil's attorney general has charged former President Jair Bolsonaro with attempting to lead a coup involving more than two ...

It was the seventh ruling among the 16 lawsuits on the latest general election filed so far by two groups of lawyers at 14 ...

Hawkish comments from the Bank of Japan and sticky inflation are lifting bond yields to multi-year highs and pushing forward ...

The Supreme Court yesterday upheld the conviction of eight people for developing a spy network for China, and rejected appeals against the verdict. The High Court in August last year found them guilty ...