The Australian Open's first formal opening ceremony became the Roger Federer show on the eve of the season-opening major. There was Crowded House, the band, playing a set of four hits. There was a ...

Police in Handa, Aichi Prefecture, have arrested a 78-year-old woman on suspicion of attempting to kill her 38-year-old son. According to police, the incident occurred at around 2:30 p.m. on Thursday, ...

Survivors and residents on Saturday shared their grief and memories of the calamity wrought by the major earthquake that killed over 6,400 people in Kobe and the wider western Japan region in 1995, ...

Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka admitted Friday to calling his subordinates and a city assembly member names such as "human scum" behind their backs, but pledged to exercise more self-control going ...

The mother of one of Elon Musk's children is suing his AI company, saying its Grok chatbot allowed users to generate sexually exploitive deepfake images of her that have caused her humiliation and ...

President Donald Trump has spent his second term bulldozing elected and appointed officials who resist him or refuse to bend to his demands. But he may have met his match in Federal Reserve Chair ...

The Nobel Peace Prize remains inseparably linked to the person or organization that ‌won it, though the medal can be given away, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday, a day after last year's ...

Police in Yokohama have arrested a 32-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of assaulting her 7-month-old son at her home in 2024, resulting in his death from traumatic brain injury. According to ...

China has ‌initiated construction of a new natural ⁠resource development structure ‍in ‍the ‍East China ⁠Sea between China ​and Japan, the Japanese foreign ministry said in a ⁠statement on Friday, ...

The White House on Friday announced names of the so-called "Board of Peace" that will, under President Donald Trump's ‌plan, supervise the temporary governance of Gaza, which continues to see deadly ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is moving to impose a total ban on political fundraisers by ministers, a source familiar with the matter said Friday, ahead of a possible House of ...

After double-digit increases in its regular-season and wild-card playoff round ratings, the NFL is looking for another large bump in ratings during this weekend's division round. The league and ...