A 15-year-old female junior high school student has died after she and a boy attending the same school were stabbed Saturday ...

Sake brewer Asahi Shuzo Co., known for its Dassai brand, announced on Dec. 11 that it will attempt to create sake in space ...

With a surge in children refusing to go to school in Japan in recent years, places of respite are being set up across the ...

South Korea's opposition leader offered Sunday to work with the government to ease the political tumult as officials sought ...

(AP) -- A woman who accused rappers Jay-Z and Sean "Diddy" Combs of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 at an awards show ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Paula Abdul and former "American Idol" producer Nigel Lythgoe have agreed to settle a lawsuit in which ...

Nikki Giovanni, the poet, author, educator and public speaker who went from borrowing money to release her first book to ...

Takumi Kanaya, this year's top money winner on the Japanese professional men's golf tour, is in contention for a ...

WAKAYAMA (Kyodo) -- Japanese startup Space One Co. said Sunday it has postponed a planned rocket launch from a commercial ...

University attendants have become even more of a force to be reckoned with in sumo, with new ozeki Onosato and top-tier ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump is considering choosing George Glass, a businessman from Oregon with a background in ...

The accession to a trans-Pacific free trade pact by Britain, which has overseas territories in the region, took effect Sunday ...