Hundreds of prisoners of war from Allied countries were held at brutal Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Their presence during the Aug 9, 1945, ...

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Tuesday lashed out at Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi for "openly challenging" Chinese territorial sovereignty after the Japanese leader's remark on a Taiwan ...

Japanese tech investor SoftBank said Wednesday that its stake in OpenAI is now around 11 percent after completing the second stage of a $41-billion investment in the maker of ChatGPT. Having made ...

A director of a medical corporation in Ichinomiya City, Aichi Prefecture, has been indicted for fraudulently obtaining 52.6 million yen in COVID-19 countermeasure subsidies. The Nagoya District Public ...

Millions of Japanese people will return to their home towns to be with their families, visit neighborhood shrines on Wednesday night and Thursday morning as part of annual New Year celebrations.

Major Asian stock markets, including Tokyo and Seoul, were closed Wednesday for the yearend and New Year's holidays, while trading was mixed in those bourses that remained open. In China, the Hang ...

Taiwan stayed on high alert on Wednesday after China staged massive military drills around the island the ‌previous day, keeping its emergency maritime response centre running, the head of the ...

Over 80 percent of facilities for people with disabilities in Japan are facing labor shortages, mainly due to lower wages than in other industries, a recent survey by a group supporting the disabled ...

Arsenal ensured it will end the year top of the Premier League after beating Aston Villa 4-1 at home in a powerful statement win on Tuesday with all goals scored in the second half. The fourth goal, ...

The United Arab Emirates said on Tuesday it was pulling its remaining forces out of Yemen after Saudi Arabia backed a call for UAE forces to leave within 24 hours, in a major crisis between the two ...

By some measures, China’s economy is looking resilient, with strong exports and breakthroughs in artificial intelligence and other advanced technologies. But that’s not how it feels for many ordinary ...

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday said his country’s answer to an attack would be harsh, which appeared to be in response to a warning by U.S. President Donald Trump over reconstruction ...