Prosecutors on Thursday sought life imprisonment for the man standing trial over the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 that shed light on the controversial ...

Earlier this week, Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo announced that its twin giant pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, will be leaving Japan. Fans knew this would happen someday, as the pandas, though born at Ueno Zoo, are ...

The U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday it will extend an exemption allowing companies to process transactions related to the Sakhalin 2 oil and natural gas development project in the Russian Far ...

Hundreds of people across Japan sued the central government Thursday seeking damages for "unconstitutional" inaction on climate change, the country's first such litigation. The landmark lawsuit ...

Bereaved relatives placed flowers and offered prayers Wednesday at the site of a mental health clinic in Osaka where 26 people perished in a fire set by an arsonist in 2021. The fire was started at ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday promised a crackdown on hate speech in the wake of an attack on a Jewish holiday event at Sydney's Bondi beach, as the youngest ‌of 15 victims ...

The United States on Wednesday approved $11.1 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, the largest ever U.S. weapons package for the island which is under increasing military pressure from ‌China. The Taiwan ...

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has ...

The Japanese government is considering putting an end to feed-in subsidies for new large-scale solar farms from fiscal 2027 onward, sources familiar with the matter said Monday, amid concerns over the ...

Apple has announced changes impacting iOS apps in Japan to comply with the Mobile Software Competition Act (MSCA). These updates create new options for developers to distribute apps on alternative app ...

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of ...

"Lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own foot" is a well known Chinese aphorism that's roughly equivalent to the English expression of shooting oneself in the foot. On November 7, Japan's new ...