People aged 65 and over account for a record-high 29.4 percent of Japan's population, the finalized 2025 census results showed Tuesday, 0.9 percentage point higher than in the previous survey in 2020 ...

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from the Shanghai Masters as he deals with a knee problem. Sinner has not played since beating Alexander Zverev in the Wimbledon final. He withdrew from the U.S.

Kyoto plans to introduce dual pricing for admission fees to Nijo Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site, as early as from fiscal 2027, charging out-of-town visitors twice as much as city residents, a ...

Four astronauts rocketed into orbit Thursday on a space station mission that will stretch until spring, among them a Canadian whose wife will give birth while he’s away. SpaceX launched commander ...

Shuichiro Hoshi, a professor of criminal law at Tokyo Metropolitan University. One of two Chilean men indicted for stealing watches from a store in Tokyo and also stealing luxury watches from a Tokyo ...

Police in Nagoya have arrested a 31-year-old woman on suspicion of fraud after she swindled a 54-year-old man out of approximately 2.28 million yen in cash by falsely claiming she was pregnant.

Hyogo Prefectural Police have arrested a 46-year-old doctor who lives in Nishinomiya on suspicion of dismembering the body of his wife and abandoning the parts in a river last year. Police said Kenji ...

Ideally, a rice cooker should take all of the guesswork out of making rice. Sure, if you want to get fancy you can fiddle around with fine-tuned settings, but in general you’re supposed to be able to ...

Under 1,000 spectators watched Asian Games hosts Japan beat South Korea in the semifinals of the women's soccer at a 50,000-capacity stadium, highlighting the struggle to generate interest in some ...

No. 1-ranked Elena Rybakina was ousted from the China Open by No. 118 Alina Charaeva of Armenia in the second round on Saturday. Charaeva held her head in her hands in disbelief after winning 3-6, 6-4 ...

Inflation slowed a bit last month as Americans ramped up their spending, though prices are still elevated and a challenge for many voters that will head to the polls for midterm elections in just over ...