Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's push for municipalities to hand out "rice vouchers" under her latest inflation-relief program ...

Asian shares rose on Friday, tracking Wall Street’s climb to records despite a sell-off for Oracle as worries persisted about a potential bubble in artificial-intelligence technology. U.S. futures ...

Beijing's actions are "not conducive to regional peace", Japan's defense minister and U.S. counterpart Pete Hegseth agreed during a call after Chinese aircraft locked radar on Japanese jets near ...

The kanji for “bear” (熊, kuma) was chosen as the single most representative character symbolic of the social mood in Japan this year, the Kyoto-based Japan Kanji Aptitude Testing Foundation said ...

"Black Box Diaries," a documentary by Japanese journalist Shiori Ito detailing her experience of sexual assault, was released in Japan on Friday, nearly two years after its world premiere at a film ...

Hong Kong police said on ‌Friday they had arrested a passenger who was on Cathay Pacific's CX811 ⁠flight from Boston to ‍Hong Kong, after the ‍carrier ‍said the individual tried to ⁠open an aircraft ...

Japan on Friday issued a tsunami advisory after a 6.7 magnitude earthquake shook the country’s northeast, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. The quake occurred off the east coast of Aomori ...

Heart-stopping footage has been released by Australian authorities showed the moment a skydiver was left dangling thousands of meters in the air after their parachute caught on the plane's tail. The ...

Tyler Robinson, the accused killer of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, made his first in-person court appearance on Thursday as a judge heard arguments on ‌what level of media access should be ...

The IOC took a big step toward reintegrating Russia and Belarus into world sports Thursday by advising governing bodies to let the countries’ teams and athletes compete in international youth events ...

Soccer fans have accused FIFA of a “monumental betrayal” after latest prices for World Cup tickets began to circulate on Thursday. The governing body allocates 8% of tickets to national associations ...

Bulgaria’s government resigned on Thursday after mass protests gripped the country and just weeks before the European Union nation is due to join the eurozone. The resignation of the minority ...