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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In his California laboratory, Ralph Keeling examines a graph created from data his father began collecting that keeps a record of the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. After 67 years, the ...

We all know that the dating scene changes as we age. So, how does finding love at different decades of our lives play out for foreign women in Japan? Dating In Your 20s Dating In Your 30s Dating In ...

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.

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 ...

A judge on Thursday blocked the Trump administration from immediately enacting certain changes to how federal elections are run, including adding a proof-of-citizenship requirement to the federal ...

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 ...

Mourners stood in line for hours on Thursday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, whose body is lying in state in St. Peter's Basilica ahead of his funeral on Saturday. Huge queues snaked ...