Tokyo authorities arrested a 65-year-old U.S. tourist for allegedly defacing the grate of a local shrine on Tuesday.

A 65-year-old American tourist has been arrested in Japan for carving letters into a wooden gate at a shrine in Tokyo.

Tokyo stocks opened higher Friday, lifted by rises in exporter shares on a weaker yen and financial issues on prospects for ...

Nissan Motor shares jumped as much as 6% in early Tokyo trading on Friday after Japan's Diamond Online magazine reported that ...

Japan's economy expanded an annualised 0.9% in the July-September quarter, government data showed on Friday, compared with a ...

Steve Lee Hayes had carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...

The Japanese army's fleet of hybrid-helicopter aircraft have been cleared to resume operations after being grounded following ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, bottom center, accompanied by his new cabinet members poses for photo at his office ...

Olympic women's javelin champion Haruka Kitaguchi said Thursday she is coming into the peak years of her career and has a recipe for ...

TOKYO — Donald Trump in his second term as president is likely to accept North Korea as a nuclear weapons state and ask for ...

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