The Nikkei stock index closed at a record year-end high above 50,000 on Tuesday, helped by an artificial intelligence boom and expectations for economic measures to be implemented by Prime Minister ...

Efforts to redevelop a historically significant house in the Philippines to memorialize local women abused there by Japanese soldiers during World War II are facing funding and logistical hurdles, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may have extra trouble sleeping after she moved into the prime minister's official residence, where ghosts of Japanese soldiers from a century ago are reputed to ...

China fired rockets toward Taiwan on Tuesday and deployed new amphibious assault ships alongside bomber aircraft and warships to encircle the island on the second day of its most extensive war games ...

Police in Shiota, Saga Prefecture, have arrested a 61-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of fatally assaulting his 93-year-old father at their home. Police said Makoto Yamaguchi, who was arrested on ...

Turkish police detained 110 suspects in an operation against Islamic State on Tuesday, a day ‌after three police officers and six militants were killed in a gunfight in northwest Turkey, the Istanbul ...

A father and son accused of a mass shooting at Australia's Bondi beach "acted alone" and were not part of a wider terrorist cell, police said on Tuesday. Sajid Akram and his son Naveed allegedly ...

Saudi Arabia bombed the port city of Mukalla in Yemen on Tuesday over what it described as a shipment of weapons for a separatist force there that arrived from the United Arab Emirates. The UAE did ...

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Matsuya department store's window in Tokyo's Ginza district features a display of kasafuku, a traditional craft that has been handed down in Sakata City, Yamagata Prefecture since ancient times.

A group of retirees cheered under disco lights as 60-year-old Xu Li leapt into her partner's arms, her legs spread akimbo in perfect splits. It was just a regular Wednesday at one of Shanghai's many ...

On any given evening as the lights come up on Act 2 of “Liberation,” Bess Wohl's intergenerational Broadway play about a women’s consciousness-raising group, you can hear supportive cheers of “Whoo!” ...