Crowds of Australians and New Zealanders gathered just before dawn on Friday to observe solemn Anzac Day ceremonies, but one service was briefly interrupted by booing -- with a local politician ...

U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told a personal story of his own heroin addiction, spiritual awakening and recovery at a conference on drug addiction Thursday and emphasized that young ...

West Japan Railway Co (JR West) officials, survivors and relatives of victims of a fatal train derailment in 2005 in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, attended a memorial service on Friday morning. On ...

Toyota Motor Corp said Thursday its global production for the year ended March fell 2.9 percent from a year earlier to 9.68 million units, marking the first decline in four years, following a ...

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 43-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 10-year-old son. According to police, Shinichi Atsumi, a company employee, has admitted to strangling his son Ritsu at ...

Police in Osaka have arrested an unemployed 23-year-old woman on suspicion of assault after she cut off her 21-year-old boyfriend’s finger with a hatchet and one of his nipples with scissors.

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The ...

The finance chiefs of Japan and the United States held a meeting Thursday in which they discussed currency policy as the two countries seek some common ground over U.S. President Donald Trump's ...

When Tsuneo Watanabe died in December 2024 at the age of 98, it wasn’t just the passing of a powerful media executive — it marked the end of Japan’s old print media empire. In the 1990s, Watanabe, who ...

U.S. Marine Corps troops, who began relocating from Japan's Okinawa to Guam late last year, will begin occupying barracks at Camp Blaz in June, a spokesperson for the Guam-based facility said, as ...

Fireworks exploded from the roof. Red smoke filled the air. Family members applauded as players, one by one, lifted the trophy. Yet Liverpool’s Premier League title-winning celebrations in 2020 could ...

Four automobile mechanic trainees died after their car crashed into a water gate on a river in central Japan on Thursday, according to local police. The police said they are looking into what happened ...