Crown Prince Akishino declined to discuss the revised Imperial House Law, enacted last month, at a news conference at the Akasaka East Residence in Tokyo on Thursday. “I have various thoughts,” but ...

U.S. technology giant Google opened its first directly run store outside the United States in Tokyo’s fashionable Omotesando district Thursday. The store sells smartphones and offers repair services.

The number of passport applications in Japan in July increased 1.6 times from a year earlier to about 530,000, following a fee reduction starting that month, it was learned Thursday. There were about ...

ZHYTOMYR REGION, UKRAINE – Ukrainian farmer ⁠Serhiy Rybalko lost two-thirds of his land when Russia occupied a large part of southern Ukraine at the start of the invasion in 2022. Now he is suffering ...

Summer Sonic began in 2000 with two stages, 29 musical acts and more than 15,000 attendees. Twenty-five years later, its creator is expecting between 300,000 and 330,000 people at the event’s ...

Etorofu is among a group of islands off the east coast of Hokkaido that are occupied by the former Soviet Union and are claimed by Japan.

Some residents hesitate to go to evacuation centers or struggle to obtain information on relief supplies due to language barriers and cultural differences.

The yen threatened to test ¥160 to the dollar on Thursday as investors balanced the fundamentals, which suggest weakening, and the ever-present possibility that Japan and the United States will spend ...

Japan’s soft drink and alcoholic beverage makers are trying to tap new markets by introducing slimmer, smaller bottles that are easy to carry around. As more people shift to low-priced private-label ...

India’s monsoon session of arliament was dominated by opposition disruptions as lawmakers demanded Home Minister Amit Shah’s resignation over police action against widespread student protests, adding ...

Safety checks were completed quickly following the 7.1 magnitude earthquake on July 28, which registered up to 7, the highest level on Japan’s seismic intensity scale.

GORONTALO, Indonesia – Loan sharks are circling a kitchen that stands on stilts above the waters of Tomini Bay, in the remote fishing village of Torosiaje off the coast of Indonesia’s Sulawesi island.