The Unification Church has come under intense scrutiny in Japan since a former prime minister was assassinated, but it could soon fall even further from grace.

Forensic experts came to a simple but heartrending conclusion about the manner of death for 95-year-old actor Gene Hackman.

In the spring of 1864, as the War of the Rebellion entered its fourth year, both the North and the South were finding it difficult to raise troops. To fill the ranks, the Northern states offered ...

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[From: Society’s Final Solution: A History and Discussion of the Death Penalty, Laura E. Randa, ed., University Press of America, Inc., 1997. Reprinted with ...

North Korea said Friday it conducted a strategic cruise missile test earlier this week, which was overseen by leader Kim Jong Un, to demonstrate "the reliability of the state nuclear deterrence," ...

More than 80 homes appear to have burned down and some 2,000 people have been ordered to evacuate after a wildfire broke out in a northeastern Japan city, local authorities said Thursday, as the ...

“Abe Shinzo: Kaikoroku,” is published. It was originally scheduled to be published a year ago, but the book reveals Abe requested the publication be postponed as it was too sensitive.

Longtime Fuji Media Holdings Inc. executive Hisashi Hieda stepped down Thursday from the company's management advisory panel as its broadcasting unit remains under fire for its handling of a sexual ...

Seven & i Holdings Co. said Thursday its founding family has withdrawn a proposed management buyout of the retailer due to a lack of interested investors, a decision that is likely advantageous to an ...

Japanese startup Dymon Co.'s ultra-compact Moon rover was launched Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, as the Tokyo-based firm seeks to become the ...