Satoshi Sato, secretary general of an association of 55 restaurant and other businesses in Akita City’s Kawabata entertainment district. Restaurants and bars in the Tohoku region are feeling the ...

Nippon Steel Corp said it aims to invest around $6 trillion yen ($39 billion) over the next five years domestically and globally, including upgrading the facilities of the recently acquired United ...

Global online forum Reddit on Friday filed a court challenge to Australia’s world-first law that bans Australian children younger than 16 from holding accounts on the world’s most popular social media ...

Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Yoshinobu Yamamoto was voted the Babe Ruth Award winner as postseason MVP by the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America, and Yankees slugger Aaron ...

Behind the Wizard of Oz in the two-part “Wicked” movies were people actually pulling the strings. They set the table for the hit double-punch movies long before the cameras ever rolled out: The ...

The queen of downhill skiing is well and truly back. Lindsey Vonn raced to a stunning fast win in a World Cup downhill on Friday to earn her first victory in nearly eight years — and the first in her ...

The European Union agreed on Friday to indefinitely freeze Russian central bank assets held in Europe, removing a big obstacle to using the cash to help Ukraine defend itself against Russia. The EU ...

Jacob Duffy took 5-38 as New Zealand cruised to a nine-wicket victory over the West Indies in the second test in Wellington on Friday for a 1-0 series lead. Seamer Duffy bagged his second five-wicket ...

The United States accused Rwanda on Friday of violating a U.S.-brokered peace agreement by backing a new and deadly offensive in the mineral-rich eastern Congo and warned that the Trump administration ...

The Kobe District Public Prosecutors Office has indicted a 36-year-old man on charges of murder and violation of the Stalking Prevention Act in connection with the August stabbing death of a ...

The United States is using its economic power to “assert its will" and threaten military force against friend and foe alike, a Danish intelligence agency said in a new report. The Danish Defense ...

Roughly 10 percent of high school students in Japan who have abused over-the-counter medication such as cough suppressants within the past year report using them several times a week or more, a ...