Yomiuri Shimbun file photoThe Tokyo Stock Exchange Reuters [posttime] JST, [postdate] TOKYO, Jan 8 (Reuters) – Japan’s Nikkei ...

China’s top diplomat began his annual New Year tour of Africa on Wednesday, focusing on strategic trade access across eastern ...

About 60 demonstrators gathered in Nagasaki City on Wednesday to protest the recent U.S. military operation that captured Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.

Japan’s inflation-adjusted real wage index fell 2.8% year on year in November 2025, marking the 11th straight month of decline as wage growth failed to outpace rising prices, government data showed ...

The towering colossus resembles both a soaring bird and a human with arms spread wide. Faces adorn its front and back. In a word, it is “monstrous.” ...

The Trump administration will withdraw from dozens of international organizations, including the U.N.’s population agency and ...

China has begun operating a mobile drilling vessel on its side of the Japan-China median line in the East China Sea, the Japanese government said Thursday.

People fleeing by car caused traffic jams in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, after a tsunami warning was issued following a magnitude 7.5 earthquake that struck off the east coast late at night on Dec.

Giant flaming torches were carried during the Oniyo Fire Festival at Daizenji Tamataregu shrine in Kurume, Fukuoka Prefecture, on Wednesday night.

Total visitor figures at Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea since their openings passed a combined 900 million on Tuesday, according to an announcement by Oriental Land Co., operator of the theme ...

The Arctic has experienced its hottest year since records began, a U.S. science agency announced recently, as climate change triggers cascading impacts from melting glaciers and sea ice to greening ...

A 3-meter-long, 270-kilogram bluefin tuna was offered Thursday at Nishinomiya Shrine in Nishinomiya, Hyogo Prefecture, known as the head shrine of Ebisu, the god of business prosperity.