Typhoon No. 6 made landfall in the southern part of Wakayama Prefecture on the morning of June 3 and was tracking eastward ...

The Fair Trade Commission searched five major staffing agencies over allegations they formed a nationwide cartel that ...

PHOENIX--Shohei Ohtani had a double, triple and two RBIs to stay hot at the plate, Freddie Freeman smacked a two-run homer ...

SEOUL--South Koreans began voting Wednesday in mayoral and other local elections that are seen as a gauge of support for ...

Prioritizing speed, the government is moving to lower the consumption tax on groceries to 1 percent—not the promised ...

An expert panel of the communications ministry on June 2 unveiled draft guidelines for regulating children’s social media use ...

BANGKOK--Thailand’s former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra formally completed all his obligations related to a prison ...

MELBOURNE--The Solomon Islands will review its secretive security treaty with China, the South Pacific nation’s new Prime ...

Dozens of Korean adoptees from North America and Europe recently gathered to leave their names on a wall at a former U.S.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s Cabinet on June 3 approved a 3.113 trillion yen ($19.5 billion) supplementary budget to ...

LONDON--Renewed strength in the dollar pushed the Japanese yen back to the key 160 level ‌on Wednesday, prompting verbal ...

The number of babies born in Japan fell for the 10th straight year to a new record low of 671,236 in 2025, according to ...