Japan’s Nikkei share average fell on Wednesday, after a sharp gain in the previous session, weighed down by heavy technology stocks that tracked Wall Street’s lower.

The mother of Megumi Yokota, a Japanese national abducted by North Korea decades ago, turned 90 on Wednesday, lamenting the lack of progress in fulfilling her long-cherished wish to bring her daughter ...

New York and New Jersey late on Tuesday sued the Trump administration seeking an emergency court order to force the ...

PokéPark KANTO’s creation certainly involved a great deal of care and attention to detail, as little nods to series can be found everywhere.

The U.S. military on Tuesday shot down an Iranian drone that “aggressively” approached the Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, the U.S. military said, in an incident first reported by ...

Exports of green tea, including matcha, reached a record high of more than 10,000 tons last year, according to trade statistics released by the Finance Ministry.

Using observations from the James Webb Space Telescope in a patch of the sky covering almost three times the area of the full moon, scientists have created the most detailed cosmic map to date of the ...

Tokyo had a net migration gain of 65,219 people in 2025, but the margin declined by 14,066 people from the previous year, marking the first decline in four years, according to a government report ...

As the new robot called Sprout walks around a Manhattan office, nodding its rectangular head, lifting its windshield wiper-like “eyebrows” and offering to shake your hand with its grippers, it looks ...

A man confirmed to have contracted measles potentially came into contact with a number of people as he visited the Ito-Yokado Kokuryo store in Chofu, Tokyo, and the Sukesan Udon Adachi Shikahama ...

The Russian Foreign Ministry said on Monday that obtaining a Russian visa would be required for former residents seeking to visit the graves of relatives in the northern territories, effectively ...

An earthquake occurred in the water off Ibaraki Prefecture at 18:03 p.m. on Tuesday, and a 3 on the Japanese seismic intensity scale of 7 was recorded in Ibaraki, Fukushima and Tochigi prefectures.