ROME (AP) — Pope Francis inaugurated his Holy Year at Rome’s main prison on Thursday, bringing a message of hope to inmates ...

Japan Airlines Co. and MUFG Bank Ltd., which were both hit by cyberattacks on Thursday, are considered core infrastructure ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said the government intends to form industrial hubs in areas where an abundance of ...

South Korea’s opposition-controlled National Assembly has voted to impeach the country’s acting leader, Han Duck-soo.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba emphasized Japan’s need to develop its own carbon-neutral energy sources in a lecture organized ...

A pair of kadomatsu New Year’s ornaments that do not use pine wood were installed in front of the Hakone Sekisho checkpoint ...

A Chinese man detained for the murder in June of a Chinese woman and attempted murder of a Japanese mother and her child in ...

With the full-fledged arrival of the winter season, the number of influenza cases is increasing. Other infectious diseases, ...

Seventy percent of the facilities exclusively used by the U.S. military in Japan are concentrated in Okinawa Prefecture. It ...

The Liberal Democratic Party has donated ¥800 million to a charity working on social issues, the party announced on Friday, ...

Japan Airlines Co. and MUFG Bank Ltd. both suffered system failures due to suspected distributed denial of service (DDoS) ...

MUFG Bank, Ltd. announced it was hit by a cyberattack, which resulted from large amounts of data being sent to the company, ...