Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and Chinese President Xi Jinping are likely to hold their first summit on Friday in ...

Controversial YouTuber and Twitch streamer Johnny Somali has been indicted for "causing a commotion" at a convenience store ...

Asian shares mostly fell Tuesday, despite a rally on Wall Street in stocks seen as benefiting the most from Donald Trump’s ...

The trade ministry has lifted a restriction on a transgender employee's use of workplace restrooms, a government source said, more than a year after the top court ruled against such restrictions. The ...

The Japanese health ministry on Tuesday called for seniors to take routine coronavirus vaccinations ahead of the winter, when ...

Police in Tsuyama City, Okayama Prefecture, have arrested a 25-year-old man and his 22-year-old wife for not reporting the death of their two-month-old son and keeping his body at their home.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledged to take tougher measures against misuse of political funds after he was ...

Japanese soccer player Kazuyoshi Miura is several generations older than his teammates. His contemporaries retired decades ago. Lionel Messi is 37, and Cristiano Ronaldo is 39 — mere youngsters ...

Typhoon Toraji unleashed floods, knocked down trees and caused power outages in the northern Philippines before weakening ...

New Zealand offered a historic national apology on Tuesday to victims and families of hundreds of thousands of young people ...

Police in the southern Chinese city of Zhuhai have arrested a 62-year-old man after a suspected hit-and-run attack at a ...

Women leaders are rare in politics but also in business in Japan, which ranked 118th of 146 in the 2024 World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap report. Yet, Japan is one of the richest countries in ...