Bear attacks on pet dogs have become a regular occurrence in north Japan, with one hunter suggesting the phenomenon is caused ...

Japan's Nozomi Maruyama resumed her winning ways Friday with her fourth ski jumping World Cup victory of the season.

Nearly 30 percent of companies in northeastern Japan said their operations have been disrupted by bears, a survey by a credit ...

In the Nov. 9 Kamisu mayoral election in Ibaraki Prefecture, the incumbent and a newcomer received the same number of votes, ...

A Bolivian court on Friday ordered the country's former President Luis Arce to remain detained for five months while he ...

Japan's Miho Takagi won her first individual World Cup event of the season on Friday in the women's 1,500 meters to all but s ...

Osaka Metro Co. conducted a disaster drill early Saturday at a train station in the major western Japan city it serves to ...

China on Saturday commemorated the 88th anniversary of the 1937 massacre in Nanjing committed by Japanese troops, adding ten ...

The most effective measure against shoplifting is a simple greeting from store staff, according to an experiment conducted by ...

In the age of dinosaurs -- before whales, great whites or the bus-sized megalodon -- a monstrous shark prowled the wat ...

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After a spate of deadly accidents that have claimed the lives of 20 service members in the past four years, a Navy report ...