A Spanish tourist was injured after being attacked by a wild bear in the historical area of Shirakawago here, a UNESCO World ...

WASHINGTON--North Korean hackers have pilfered billions of dollars by breaking into cryptocurrency exchanges and creating ...

The International Criminal Court will never halt its activities even with the increased pressure from sanctions imposed by ...

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

Prudential Life Insurance Co. is bracing for a loss of up to $350 million (54.25 billion yen) as its new CEO promised a ...

BUSAN--Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa blasted a recent South Korean court ruling that ordered the Japanese government to pay ...

The Tokyo District Court on Dec. 9 sentenced a former teacher at a junior high school in Tokyo’s Nerima Ward to nine years in prison for sexually assaulting and injuring a female student at the school ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi fed China more ammunition to bolster its criticism of Japan moving toward a “new militarism” in calling for the removal of labels applied to Axis powers after World War ...

BEIJING―Chinese tech giant ByteDance’s AI research unit Seed has created an Alignment & Preparedness team and launched a global drive to recruit ‌10 researchers, saying it will make a ⁠long-term ...

An association of publishing companies is demanding an explanation from a major book distributor about its suspected sales of works to artificial intelligence development company Anthropic for ...

Japanese and Ukrainian foreign ministers affirmed their respective nations’ commitment to strengthening mutually beneficial cooperation, including in the field of security. “Japan stands with Ukraine, ...

The operator of the Don Quijote megastores Pan Pacific International Holdings Corp. (PPIH) is pushing into new territory with a food-forward format to stand out in one of Japan’s most fiercely ...