Japan’s Nikkei share average reversed early gains on Friday and were on track for a second straight weekly decline, as ...

Myaku, the official mascot of the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, will get to enjoy events put on by the Osaka Prefectural government at Chihaya Park in the village of Chihaya-akasaka in the prefecture. The ...

Figure skaters representing Japan at the Milano Cortina Winter Olympics arrived at Milan Malpensa Airport on Thursday.

Heavy snow fell from Thursday night to Friday morning mainly in northern Kinki and Hokuriku due to a strong winter pressure pattern.

The former mayor of Ito, Shizuoka Prefecture, who lost her job due to allegations that she had falsified her academic credentials, is being questioned by the Shizuoka prefectural police, a police ...

Democrats and the White House struck a deal to avert a partial government shutdown and temporarily fund the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday as they consider new restrictions for President ...

A plum blossom festival kicked off at the Atami Plum Garden in Atami, Shizuoka Prefecture, on Jan. 10. The garden is known for having the earliest blossoming plum trees in the country.

Melania Trump is capping her first year back as first lady with the global release of a documentary she produced about the 20 days leading up to husband Donald Trump’s return to the White House.

This rematch between the Australian Open finalists was lopsided, and Aryna Sabalenka flipped the outcome with a straight-sets win over Madison Keys.

China agreed to relax rules to allow some visa-free travel for British citizens on Thursday during a visit by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to Beijing, as part of a partnership deal which London hopes ...

The European Union agreed Thursday to list Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard as a terrorist organization over Tehran’s bloody crackdown on nationwide protests, the bloc’s top diplomat said, in a ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average edged lower on Thursday as a broadly stronger yen weighed on sentiment towards the exporter-heavy index, although a surge in heavily weighted Advantest limited the losses.