The company that runs Tokyo Disneyland is expected to report a record operating profit for the fiscal year ended March 31 as events celebrating the theme park's 35th anniversary lifted attendance.

Japanese prosecutors on Monday brought new charges against former Nissan Motor Chairman Carlos Ghosn, just as the latest detention after his fourth arrest earlier this month was set to expire.

Nagasaki University will not, in principle, hire professors or teachers who smoke, a move that apparently is a first by a state-run university.

About 30 thrill-seekers leaped off a bridge over Yanba Dam here at a new attraction touted as Japan's highest bungee jump, which opened on April 20.

A tweet that legendary swords featured in the popular video game were forged at a humble shrine here has set off a stampede by so-called sword girls.

A father and son lifesaving team drowned while trying to save a tourist swept out to sea near one of Australia's most famous sights off the south coast, officials said Monday.

Police on Monday referred a former Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker to prosecutors on suspicion of raping a woman he was dating in December, investigative sources said.

Carlos Vela scored two goals, Mark-Anthony Kaye had three assists and Los Angeles FC beat Seattle 4-1 on Sunday to hand the Sounders' their first loss of the season.

One Japanese national has been confirmed dead and four more were wounded in weekend Sri Lankan terror attacks that killed more than 200 people, a Japanese government official said Monday.

The Curse of La Llorona" brought good fortune at the box office.

A total of 207 people were killed and over 450 others wounded Sunday in eight bomb blasts that targeted mainly churches and hotels in Sri Lanka, media reports quoting police said.

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party suffered a crushing defeat in Sunday's lower house by-elections in Okinawa and Osaka prefectures seen as a harbinger for an upper house election only a few months away.