When Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian told state TV last week that he found it “very difficult” to reach the country’s supreme leader, it sparked fresh speculation about the whereabouts of Mojtaba ...

Yasukuni Shrine has clarified that its new policy banning military-style clothing on its grounds does not apply to active-duty members. After receiving inquiries, including those from The Japan Times, ...

Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department said Wednesday it arrested a 23-year-old man after he tried to smuggle some 200 lizards into Japan by hiding them inside socks in a suitcase. Daniel Isaac ...

Six of the biggest names in finance are helping Nvidia ease some of the investor anxiety that’s been building for weeks over its swelling commitments to backstop the artificial intelligence boom. The ...

The coordinated intervention by Japan and the United States to support the yen has bumped up hard against reality, the $70 billion or so committed to strengthening the currency all but ineffective as ...

SINGAPORE – Parkour may conjure images of boisterous teenagers swinging between buildings ⁠in urban settings, but a coach in Singapore is using the techniques to teach better balance to the elderly, ...

Flight 123 — a Boeing 747 bound for Osaka from Tokyo — crashed into a mountain on Aug. 12, 1985, killing 520 people.

Newer fans, who have only discovered Japan’s national sport in the past few years, could be forgiven for thinking that rapid progress to the top of the banzuke is the norm for sumo’s biggest names.

Taipei says Beijing was trying to create a false impression that it controls waters east of Taiwan, where the drills were conducted.

Even as the U.S. and Japan have shown rare unity in moving to strengthen the yen, a fundamental tension between U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi over the Bank of ...

Takaichi’s success will ultimately depend not on becoming the next Shinzo Abe, but on proving that his strategic legacy can evolve to meet a new era.

Rakuten Group’s shares sank the most in over a year after the Japanese e-commerce pioneer failed to slash persisting losses at its mobile unit. The Tokyo-based company’s stock fell as much as 12% on ...