(Mainichi/Kaho Kitayama) TOKYO -- Some prefectural police forces have started new undercover operations applying for "dark gigs" to get in contact with criminal groups, the chair of Japan's ...

TOKYO -- In recent years, crime groups' bases of operations for "special fraud" cases targeting people in Japan via scam phone calls have been set up overseas, and police forces in other countries ...

Japan and South Korea both view the issue of defence spending as separate from trade. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has test-fired a newly developed sniper rifle, state media said Saturday, as he inspected special forces whose training he said bolstered "actual war capability for ...