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 ...

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 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 ...

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 presidents of Latin America's two largest countries urged restraint on Wednesday in the face ‌of escalating actions from the United States toward regional neighbor Venezuela. U.S. President Donald ...

The younger son of Hollywood filmmaker and political luminary Rob Reiner made his first court appearance on Wednesday, charged with double murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, but the ...

Tokyo University of Agriculture Prof Koji Yamazaki who specializes in animal ecology. The Environment Ministry plans to launch a nationwide survey next fiscal year to accurately determine the bear ...

"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 ...