A new K-pop boy band made their global debut on Friday with two members who defected from North Korea and an album that ...

Fresh off securing a plan to receive more U.S. weaponry, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed a new prime ...

Japan’s core inflation slowed in June but stayed above the central bank’s 2% target for well over three years, highlighting ...

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A memorial hall of Satoshi Omura, who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 10 years ago, opened in his hometown of ...

Officials of an Aomori Prefecture village, famous for its rice paddy art, are proud of this year’s work, saying that it is ...

The government has set a goal of increasing the annual number of foreign visitors to 60 million and their consumption to ¥15 ...

A major U.S. electric power company intends to restart the Unit 1 reactor at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant as ...

Some of the residents of the Tokara Islands in Kagoshima Prefecture who had evacuated to Kagoshima City and other locations ...

A Chinese court’s sentencing of a Japanese man to 3½ years in prison for allegedly engaging in espionage could deal a setback ...

NARITA, Chiba – Narita Airport is facing the busiest time of year for live eel imports as it gets closer to the Day of the Ox ...

The first sumo tournament featuring two yokozuna in five years lost one of its featured wrestlers after just five days.