Japan is right to support the ICC and its Japanese president. But support should not mean treating the institution as immune ...

The Fire and Disaster Management Agency plans to introduce a system that automatically transcribes emergency calls and ...

This year marks the second-earliest start of the season, according to health ministry records dating back to 1999.

The U.S. Geological Survey said the disaster on Wednesday was caused by a glacial collapse that triggered a vast flow of icy ...

The insurer, which has held off on adding to its Japanese government bond holdings over the past two years after unrealized ...

The number of children on nursery school waiting lists in the nation as of April 1 rose by 181 from a year earlier to 2,435, ...

A tsunami-like wall of water and mud swept through villages and towns along Nepal’s Bhote Koshi and Trishuli rivers on ...

Marshall Wace has long traded in Asia, with Japan being a key market. It opened a Hong Kong office in 2006, bringing to the ...

Some ⁠banks have frozen Radiant World’s accounts and trading houses have severed ​ties on concerns ⁠the commodity trader had ...

The two, who are Chilean nationals, allegedly smashed the showcase of a watch shop in broad daylight on Tuesday and made off ...

Major combat operations have been paused for weeks but there has been little progress toward a wider peace agreement between ...

About 6 million to 8 million barrels a day of crude are now being shipped through the chokepoint, keeping global prices in ...