Britain and Japan on Sunday sealed a sweeping economic and technological partnership, expected to generate over £18 billion ($24 billion) in investment, during a visit to London by Japanese Prime ...

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 ...

Police in Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture, have arrested a 21-year-old university student on suspicion of fraud after he allegedly conned a 76-year-old woman out of 3 million yen in cash. Takeshi ...

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 ...

A judge cleared the way for President Donald Trump's name to be removed from the Kennedy Center's exterior on Friday, denying a last-minute request from the institution's board that would have kept ...

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 ...

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 ...

Police in Tatsuno, Hyogo Prefecture, have arrested a 68-year-old man on suspicion of killing his wife who was in her 60s. According to police, Shigeki Obayashi called 110 at 10:15 a.m. on Friday and ...

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 ...

Japan's transport ministry on Friday reprimanded Japan Airlines and urged it to compile preventive measures by July 17 after an incident in which two cabin attendants drank the day before a flight in ...

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 ...

From explicit calls for murder to sexual harassment, violent threats targeting US lawmakers on Facebook rocketed after tech giant Meta rolled back key content moderation policies last year, a tech ...