Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako departed Saturday for their trip to the Netherlands and Belgium, marking their fourth official overseas visit aimed at promoting international goodwill since the ...

AI giant Anthropic says it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to prevent their use by ...

Participants march in a parade for Tokyo Pride 2026 from Shibuya to Yoyogi Park on Sunday. About 1,500 people took part in the parade -- Asia's largest LGBTQ+ symbolic pride event, which was held on ...

Japanese footwear giant Asics Corp said Wednesday it plans to spin off its Onitsuka Tiger high-end sneaker brand amid booming popularity with inbound tourists. The new company will be a wholly owned ...

Police in Fukuoka City have arrested a 28-year-old man on suspicion of sexually assaulting a female acquaintance in her 20s in an apartment building where they both live in May. Police said Yasuhito ...

The bodies of three women in their 20s were found in an apartment in Sapporo on Tuesday in what police believe was a joint suicide. Police said that shortly before 8 a.m., they received a call from a ...

Japan is finalizing negotiations with the U.S. Treasury Department to extend an exemption allowing companies to process transactions related to the Sakhalin 2 oil and natural gas project in Russia's ...

The United States began a fresh round of strikes against multiple targets overnight in Iran, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, hours after President Donald Trump vowed new attacks if no peace deal ...

Police in Takashima, Shiga Prefecture, have arrested a 27-year-old Self-Defense Force member on suspicion of assaulting his two-month-old daughter by fracturing her arm. According to police, the ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her Malaysian counterpart Anwar Ibrahim agreed to deepen cooperation on energy and maritime security in their talks in Tokyo on Wednesday as Japan seeks to diversify ...

Anthropic will donate $150 million to launch a fellowship program that places people early in their careers with nonprofits around the country to help them use artificial intelligence more effectively ...

Japanese police and volunteers are searching for an American college student who went missing in Kyoto and hasn’t been seen in a week. Twenty-year-old James “Weston” Higginbotham and his family ...