The value of Japan's food, agricultural, forestry and fisheries product exports in the first half of 2024 fell 1.8 percent ...

The stakes grew higher for Venezuela's electoral authority to show proof backing its decision to declare President Nicolas ...

In India and China, torrential rains have killed more than 200 people in the past week. Three others died in Pakistan.

Winless Japan's prospects in the Paris Olympic men's basketball tournament took a further hit Friday, when the Japan ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan is experiencing positive developments "unlike before" that would enable it to officially end a ...

The Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) on Aug. 1 took the rare step of asking people to not engage in slander against athletes ...

A 17-year-old girl filed a lawsuit against the Sapporo Municipal Government on July 30, seeking 5.5 million yen (some $36,700 ...

Fraudsters posing as Chinese investigative authorities swindled an Osaka Prefecture resident of Chinese nationality out of ...

This fiscal year's minimum wage in Japan will be significantly raised. A government council has agreed to hike the current ...

Donald Trump has found tremendous success from the very first moment he stepped onto the presidential stage by stoking racial ...

A fashion show by disabled children using wheelchairs was held in the city of Fukuoka on July 28. A total of 15 people ...

The Nikkei stock index tumbled over 2,000 points Friday to register its second-largest point drop in history, in a global ...