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Authorities say a man doused a woman with a fluid and set her on fire on a Chicago L train, leaving her in critical condition ...

Police are searching for answers on Tuesday morning after a woman was severely burned after she was set on fire during a fight on a CTA Blue Line train.

Sanae Takaichi must decide whether to break with centuries of tradition and step into the ring to present a trophy ...

Following the end of her three-year engagement, Ms Kano turned to the AI chatbot for advice and companionship.

A version of this scene repeated itself all day in Kyoto last month as 300 wrestlers went at it in bout after bout. This was ...

With its challenge to Japan’s conventional ideals of feminine beauty, the bar, which opened in mid-2020, draws about 100 customers on average each day, the majority of them foreign tourists, and has ...

Bear sightings and attacks continue nationwide in Japan as the country entered the second weekend of November.We start ...

Tourists visiting Japan should consider that the cultural norms may be very different than what they're used to back home, ...

Since April, more than 100 people have been injured and at least 12 killed in bear attacks across Japan, according to Environment Ministry statistics at the end of October.

The governor of a northern region of Japan says authorities were getting "desperate" due to a lack of manpower amid daily reports of bear attacks.