Despite offering some of Japan’s most beautiful scenery, Shirakawa-ko isn’t all that famous. “Wait a second,” you might be saying, “isn’t that village in Gifu Prefecture with the thatched roofs one of ...

Five years after COVID-19 triggered national lockdowns, economic uncertainty and killed millions, the World Health Organization’s member countries agreed on a draft “pandemic treaty” that sets ...

"Sex crimes have been occurring frequently on trains in the greater Tokyo area," observed the man, who often sits in the spectators' gallery at public trials. For whatever reason, he tells Asahi Geino ...

The visit of El Salvador leader is a testament that there are more future devious plans by the Trump Administration to ...

Thirty years after a truck bomb detonated outside a federal building in America's heartland, killing 168 people in the deadliest homegrown attack on U.S. soil, deep scars remain. From a mother who ...

Australian politicians were gifted about A$245,000 ($147,000) in match tickets over nearly two years by the country's most popular sporting leagues as part of a lobbying campaign against a proposed ...

World shares were mostly lower Wednesday as Nvidia and other technology companies were walloped by tighter U.S. controls on exports of advanced computer chips used for artificial intelligence. The ...

In Japan, there’s a strange trend gaining popularity: resignation agencies. These companies will quit your job for you — without you even having to face your boss! For a fee, these agencies take care ...

The southwestern Japanese prefecture of Kumamoto on Wednesday marked the ninth anniversary of a deadly earthquake, the more intensive of a pair of quakes that hit the region, with over 270 victims ...

Japanese actress Ryoko Hirosue was released from custody on Wednesday, her office said on her official website, after being arrested on suspicion of assaulting a nurse at a central Japan hospital ...

Japan’s expressways require drivers to pay a toll to use them, but at least they have a pretty slick payment system. Rather than having to stop at toll both and fiddle with change to pay to an ...

A Japanese government panel has proposed diverting more tariff-free imported rice to human consumption rather than using it for animal feed or other purposes, as prices remain elevated due to ...