The number of accommodation guests in Yamanashi Prefecture reached 4.322 million in the first half of 2026, about 100,000 ...

The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games Organizing Committee apologized Sept. 22 for a series of problems in the operation of the sporting event, inclu ...

In a Sept. 22 meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in New York, Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi avoided delving ...

In both his scholarship and his teaching, Nolan examines the disparate narratives that took shape after the bombing, as the ...

A cat cafe specializing in hairless Sphynx cats has opened in this west Japan city, offering visitors a chance to interact wit ...

Shohei Ohtani was back in the Los Angeles Dodgers' lineup on Wednesday after missing two weeks with right biceps discomfort.

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The United States and China have agreed to extend their trade truce by two months until Jan. 10, Treasury Secretary Scott ...

SoftBank Group Corp. said Thursday it will raise $11.1 billion to finance the final tranche of a $30 billion investment in ...

Passengers were evacuated from an All Nippon Airways plane at Naha airport in Okinawa Prefecture on Wednesday night after it ...

A 99-year lease of the strategically important Port of Darwin to China's Landbridge Group has again become a source of te ...

BEIJING (Kyodo) -- North Korea test-fired multiple-launch rockets on Tuesday to prove their hit accuracy and "superiority," ...