The Shinto shrine is regarded by neighboring Asian countries such as South Korea and China as a symbol of Japan’s wartime ...

Companies may be enjoying a summer sales boost, but behind the scenes they are preparing for a future where consumers want ...

U.S. technology giant Google opened its first directly run store outside the United States in Tokyo’s fashionable Omotesando district Thursday. The store sells smartphones and offers repair services.

The number of passport applications in Japan in July increased 1.6 times from a year earlier to about 530,000, following a fee reduction starting that month, it was learned Thursday. There were about ...

Etorofu is among a group of islands off the east coast of Hokkaido that are occupied by the former Soviet Union and are claimed by Japan.

The yen threatened to test ¥160 to the dollar on Thursday as investors balanced the fundamentals, which suggest weakening, and the ever-present possibility that Japan and the United States will spend ...

Many foreign residents in Kumamoto Prefecture, hit by a major earthquake late last month, are supporting one another as some hesitate to go to evacuation centers or struggle to obtain information on ...

ZHYTOMYR REGION, UKRAINE – Ukrainian farmer ⁠Serhiy Rybalko lost two-thirds of his land when Russia occupied a large part of southern Ukraine at the start of the invasion in 2022. Now he is suffering ...

First-year ⁠Browns coach Todd Monken told reporters on Wednesday that Watson will play the first half against the Bears.

Summer Sonic began in 2000 with two stages, 29 musical acts and more than 15,000 attendees. Twenty-five years later, its creator is expecting between 300,000 and 330,000 people at the event’s ...

Taipei says Beijing was trying to create a false impression that it controls waters east of Taiwan, where the drills were ...

Chiba Prefectural Police have arrested a 54-year-old woman on suspicion of killing her 89-year-old mother at her home in the ...