Mysterious geometric patterns dubbed “underwater crop circles” are appearing on the seafloor as the spawning season of a ...

Asian shares were trading mixed early Thursday after Wall Street’s rally stalled as investors appeared not to react much to ...

Pope Leo XIV made his first appointment of a Chinese bishop under the Vatican’s 2018 agreement with Beijing, signaling he is ...

A private lunar lander from Japan crashed while attempting a touchdown Friday, the latest casualty in the commercial rush to ...

CHIBA—A prefectural commission plans to restrict crabbing for “gazami” crabs along the coast of Kisarazu, Chiba Prefecture, ...

From the lakeside city of Otsu to Kyoto, I walked a roughly 12-kilometer stretch of the Biwako Sosui—a historic manmade ...

China slumped out of World Cup contention before Uzbekistan and Jordan qualified for the first time. In the meantime, South ...

The Japan Shogi Association elected its first female president in its 101-year history. Ichiyo Shimizu, 56, who holds a 7-dan ...

No longer catering only to children, a store in Tokyo's Harajuku district offering about 1,700 capsule toy dispensers on its ...

SAKAI, Osaka Prefecture--City authorities gave the go-ahead for trial balloon rides at ancient burial grounds here from early ...

WASHINGTON--Japan and the United States failed to find common ground in their fifth round of talks on Washington’s high ...

OpenAI is seeing an increasing number of Chinese groups using its artificial intelligence technology for covert operations, ...