Junya Ogawa was elected the new leader of the Centrist Reform Alliance (Chudo) on Feb. 13 and faces the urgent task of ...

KITA-KYUSHU—A trainee pilot who helped staff two passenger flights as part of his training has been arrested on suspicion of ...

Asia shares were trading mostly lower Friday, tracking sharp Wall Street losses on a sell-off of technology-related stocks ...

Choi Ga-on of South Korea denied American Chloe Kim a historic three-peat ‌in the women's halfpipe snowboard at the Winter ...

Japan has agreed with the United States to ‌accelerate talks on the ⁠first batch of ⁠deals under Japan's $550 billion investment package as some issues ⁠still need to be worked out, Trade Minister ...

Australia's Cooper Woods won the moguls competition to secure the country's first gold medal at the Milano Cortina Games by ...

Japanese automaker Nissan reported deeper losses for the latest quarter through December compared to a year earlier, as ...

Around 30 finless porpoises were filmed for the first time in waters in Tokyo Bay off Haneda Airport. The aerial footage, ...

The annual cherry blossom season is expected to start in Tokyo on March 21, closely trailed by Japan's other regions welcoming the blooms earlier than usual, according to Weathernews Inc.'s sakura ...

Fallout from the Lower House election has resulted in the largest proportion of lawmakers opposing legalizing an optional dual-surname system for the first time in 12 years after a national election, ...

Japan’s crime rate rose for the fourth consecutive year in 2025, propelled by a record-breaking fraud wave and an increase in sexual offenses, the National Police Agency said Feb. 12.

At 10:47 a.m., U.S. Steel’s Clairton Coke Works outside Pittsburgh — a sprawling riverside industrial facility and the largest of its kind in the Western Hemisphere — erupted in an ear-piercing boom.