Yoshimasa Hayashi's visit came as Japan aims to strengthen relations with the new Philippine administration amid China's intensifying military activities in the East and South ...

It will be the first attendance by a head of the United Nations since Ban Ki-moon did so in 2010.

The assistance in question does not cover businesses in the sex industry, such as companies dispatching sex workers, operators of "love hotels" or accommodations for ...

Temperatures of around 40 degrees Celsius were recorded on the sixth day of a heat wave that began after the earliest end to the capital's ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has raised its coronavirus alert level to the second-highest of four levels.

Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony describing an attempt by Donald Trump to grab the wheel of his car on Jan. 6 revealed a lack of control in ...

The 24-year-old Dutchman and his Red Bull team are surging after six consecutive victories; one from teammate Sergio Perez in Monaco and the rest by ...

The sentence was imposed nine months after Kelly, 55, was convicted of exploiting his stardom and wealth over decades to lure women and underage girls ...

Tadej Pogacar will be the man to beat as he targets his third consecutive Tour de France title when the race sets off on Friday, ...

The removal of the evacuation order was the first for a difficult-to-return zone in the municipalities that host Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc.'s Fukushima ...

Post-World War II, Japan has had to contend with its economy, its relationship with China and the United States' influence in the region, leading an ...

The two-way star earned his fourth straight win while bringing his strikeout total to 101 for the season.

Leaders agreed to put more than 300,000 troops on high alert while strengthening NATO's European defenses with extra forces, enhanced air power and new equipment.

Kaliningrad, which relies on railways and roads through Lithuania for most goods, has been cut off from some freight transport from mainland Russia since June ...

"If you don’t tell people it’s made from waste water, they probably won’t know,” said one drinker.

Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. won last month's elections by a landslide, securing the biggest victory since his father was ousted by a popular revolt in ...

Experts on social and family issues stress the urgent need to create an environment that encourages people to have more children and prevent a future ...

Defending champion Novak Djokovic reached the third round at Wimbledon for the 16th time on Wednesday, while rival Andy Murray suffered the earliest exit of ...

Factory output slumped a seasonally adjusted 7.2% in May from the previous month, official data showed on Thursday.

The former president has so far maintained his hold on the Republican Party despite scandals and controversies that would have ended the careers of other ...

Ressa has been a vocal critic of outgoing President Rodrigo Duterte, triggering what media advocates say is a grinding series of criminal charges, probes and ...

Inundations from heavy rainfall and storm surges affect millions of people every year and cause billions of dollars of damage to homes, infrastructure and economies.

Munetaka Murakami blasted back-to-back two-run homers and went deep for the third straight game.

Director Keisuke Yoshida wades into morally gray territory in his film about a middle-aged man with a vendetta against an aspiring influencer.

Keiichi Kobayashi’s sweet and quirky comedy centers on a university student with the secret ability to see love in the form of little balls of ...

WHO chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus described the decision by the top U.S. court to scrap half a century of constitutional protections for abortion rights as ...

The James Webb Space Telescope is able to gaze further into the cosmos than any telescope before it, thanks to its enormous primary mirror and ...

The girls and women of anime tend to experience the conflicting emotions of real life. That’s because the auteurs try to create “an everyday, real ...

A median of 68% of people recently surveyed said they had an unfavorable view of the country, Pew said in a statement.

Kishida is the first Japanese leader to attend a NATO summit, highlighting the expanding reach of an alliance that faces challenges posed by Russia and ...

The approach marks a fundamental shift for an alliance that was born in the Cold War but came to view a post-Soviet Russia as a ...

NATO has invited to the gathering the leaders of Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, which the Brussels-based organization views as its Asia-Pacific partner ...

The meeting came as Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol and U.S. President Joe Biden attend a NATO summit in Madrid.

A total of 30 billion won, or about ¥3.1 billion, could be raised to pay compensation to about 300 former laborers and bereaved families.

The leader will head to Hong Kong on Thursday and Friday, according to local media, for events marking 25 years of Chinese rule in the ...

Insiders describe an ongoing sense of paranoia and paralysis, along with an unsettling realization that the sky-high growth rates of the past two decades are ...

The 27-year-old signed a four-year contract with Monaco, who will appear in the third round of qualifying for this year's Champions League after finishing third ...

The tournament, dwarfed by its male counterpart in terms of size and interest, is nonetheless showcasing wrestlers increasingly capable of delivering entertaining and thrilling bouts.

Biden has got his Group of Seven counterparts to agree on a plan that would cap the price of Russian oil, a daunting goal that ...

After the Roe v. Wade decision, many are speculating about which rights the Supreme Court will take away next.

For the organization to recover its relevance, China and the U.S. both need to make more serious compromises.

In this new era of strategic competition between China and the West, disengagement is the order of the day.

Strange as it may sound, the growth of fake data is a step in the right direction, and not just because it avoids using people’s ...

The world's largest automaker by sales said it produced 634,940 vehicles globally in May, 5.3% fewer than in the same month last year and short ...

New infections in the capital marked a week-on-week increase for the 12th consecutive day, with the seven-day average rising 37.3%.

The soft-spoken prime minister has said he will be "thoroughly realistic" when his country faces potentially historic challenges.

While the Osaka and Sapporo courts agreed on one key point, they diverged on whether the lack of same-sex marriage violates the Constitution's equality principle.

The proportion of items that saw price gains in Japan’s core consumer price basket climbed to 69.2% last month.

Kishida reportedly told Yoon that he hopes the South Korean president will work to restore the countries' "extremely severe" relations to "a healthy state."

The 61-year-old former West Germany great urged "Die Mannschaft" to focus on themselves ahead of their opener against the Samurai Blue on Nov. 23 at ...