China and the United States have traded accusations over their respective actions in the South China Sea at a UN Security ...

Muto Masatane and his wife Yuko welcomed a healthy baby girl. He lives with incurable ALS. We follow the couple navigating ...

Three years after the eastern Ukrainian city of Mariupol fell to Russia, a campaign calling for the release of prisoners of ...

The Japanese operator of the 7-Eleven convenience store chain is planning to sell part of its bank unit to major trading firm ...

Japan has started use of an eye-scan technology to help block AI-generated impersonators often used in online fraud. It has ...

A Japanese company that runs a popular online site to resell goods says it has started using AI to combat fraud.

Police have arrested a female high school student who allegedly used a knife to attack and injure three other students at a correspondence high school in the western prefecture of Hiroshima.

Japanese archaeologist Omura Sachihiro, who studied the origins of ironmaking in Turkey, has died. He was 78. Our site uses cookies and other technologies to give you the best possible experience. By ...

People across much of Japan sweated through a second day of unseasonably hot weather on Wednesday.

US President Donald Trump says he intends to start operating a next-generation missile defense system by January 2029, the end of his term.

Group of Seven finance officials are set to meet for discussions that are expected to be dominated by US tariffs and the impact on the global economy.

Japan posted its first trade deficit in three months in April. The Finance Ministry says it will keep a close watch on the effects on trade of the US Trump administration's additional tariffs. The ...