BEIJING--Four boats capsized in a sudden storm on a river in southwestern China, leaving nine people dead and one missing, ...

The number of children under 15 years old in Japan is 13.66 million, 350,000 fewer than in 2024 and the lowest on record, the ...

OSAKA—The boy character on packaging of the long-selling Bisco biscuit has been redesigned for the first time in 20 years to ...

Japan has embarked on a mission to create a battery system that can continuously generate electricity for a century under the ...

Waymo LLC, which operates fully autonomous, driverless taxis in the United States, has announced that it would start ...

Museum collections professor Ayumi Terada admitted being overwhelmed by the lack of diversity in an exhibition she organized ...

OSAKA--A man from Tokyo was arrested on suspicion of attempted murder after he deliberately drove his car into a group of ...

A gin distillery on the remote island of Fukuejima is doing its part to help the city of Goto achieve net zero CO2 emissions ...

NAHA—Less than a week after joint Japan-U.S. anti-crime patrols started in Okinawa Prefecture, police here on April 23 ...

A World War II-era Philippine navy ship to be used as a target in a combat exercise by American and the Philippine forces ...

The skulls of three Ainu individuals were returned from Britain to Hokkaido, the third repatriation of the indigenous ...

A woman’s research into the word “kizuna” (bonds) led to an extensive survey on how foreign technical intern trainees were ...