Japan’s Nikkei share average climbed roughly 3% on Wednesday, supported by cautious optimism that the Middle East crisis ...

The Shinjuku Ward Office, in cooperation with local residents, is trialing an initiative in which food trucks operate in the “Toyoko” area of Tokyo’s Kabukicho district, as part of efforts to change ...

Nemophila flowers have begun to bloom at Gifu World Rose Garden in Kani, Gifu Prefecture. The garden has an about 3,000-square meter flower bed with around 80,000 nemophila plants, which are expected ...

Japan’s Shohei Ohtani is setting the pace by topping baseball’s rich list, according to figures published by Forbes on ...

Russia launched over 400 drones at Ukraine on Tuesday in a rare daytime attack, air force spokesman Yuriy Ihnat told Reuters.

Hong Kong police arrested a bookstore owner and three shopkeepers on Tuesday for allegedly selling “seditious” publications including a biography of jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai, broadcaster TVB ...

A unique event featuring fermented foods and jewelry was held in Kofu on March 7. A record 123 businesses from inside and outside the prefecture had booths at Kofu Hakkou Marche, the eighth such event ...

President Donald Trump said for a second day that the U.S. was in talks with Iran to end the war as diplomatic efforts picked ...

Participants of a workshop got to try their hand at making lanterns styled like nebuta floats at a community center in the district of Arakawa in Aomori.

Lebanon’s Foreign Ministry declared Iran’s ambassador to Beirut persona non grata Tuesday, ordering him to leave the country by the end of the week.

New criteria starting in April will give top priority for heart transplants from brain-dead donors to patients under 60 ...

When I first started working in Japan in 2016, I never would have imagined that a decade later I would be running my own Tokyo-based AI consulting business.