With the ranks of prospective sumo wrestlers thinning out, the Japan Sumo Association is beefing up recruitment by dropping ...

Yokozuna Hakuho has retired after a glorious sumo career of more than two decades that has not only seen him shatter many ...

Two major online staffing agencies have banned requests recruiting workers to create political videos due to concerns such ...

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

Kozo Okamoto, a former Japanese Red Army member who took part in the 1972 mass shooting at an airport in Israel before ...

The number of COVID-19 deaths plummeted by 40 percent in 2025 from the previous year, but the infectious disease still killed ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi met for the first time with visiting Solomon Islands Prime Minister Matthew Wale who changed ...

Global military spending is surging, reaching the highest level in almost four decades, according to a Swedish think tank ...

MANILA—In the first thawing of deeply frozen diplomatic ties, Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi briefly spoke with his ...

The nation’s catlike icon of seemingly infinite collaborations has gained another ambassadorial title in celebration of the ...

FamilyMart Co. is changing the look of its convenience stores in urban areas, adopting a novel style to stand out from the ...

Prudential Life Insurance Co.’s massive employee fraud scandal continues spreading, revealing another 125 victims and an ...