The internal affairs ministry is in an ironic bind after it attempted to delay responding to requests for public information ...

Japan plans to use drones, artificial intelligence and new methods of warfare as it adapts its defense strategies to suit ...

Japan Rugby League One has backtracked on new contentious player registration rules that would classify some players as ...

BANGKOK—Shares were mostly lower in Asia and U.S. futures also declined Monday on expectations that the U.S. Federal ...

The main opposition party in the Lower House is on the verge of splitting up, just seven months after its launch.

Five days a week, Fumiko Obinata drives herself to work in Ogawa in Nagano Prefecture, a village of roughly 2,000 people, surrounded by high peaks. Her work day runs from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., including ...

Tokyo police on July 6 arrested a 15-year-old boy who has admitted to using AI-powered ChatGPT to build a program that forcibly deleted 46,000 accounts on anime streaming service “Bandai Channel,” ...

A powerful magnitude 8.8 earthquake off Russia's far eastern Kamchatka Peninsula triggered 4-meter (13-foot) tsunami waves and sparked evacuation orders in Hawaii and across the Pacific on Wednesday.

KATHMANDU--Three months before a wall of water, mud and rock killed hundreds when it hurtled down a Himalayan valley ...

U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said on Sunday he will encourage ⁠G20 members to re-examine terms of ⁠trade with China ...

A revision that will doom the dreams and enthusiasm of foreigners seeking permanent resident status in Japan, where they have ...

Fuko was born in the autumn of 2000, the turn of the millennium, as the first child of the Setoguchi family in Saga ...