For decades, Japan's defense spending remained around 1% of GDP. Just two and a half years ago, at the end of 2022, the ...

Hokkaido University's chemistry department has permitted several associate professors -- who had previously complained of ...

Executives at a major home tutoring operator on June 25 apologized to Kumamoto Mayor Toshiharu Takaoka for an error in online ...

A landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling 10 years ago on June 26, 2015, legalized same-sex marriage across the U.S.

Vietnam has lifted the death penalty for eight crimes in legal reforms that may spare the life of a real estate tycoon ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) will introduce a new overnight limited express train set to run between the Tokyo ...

The number of mental disorder cases recognized as work-related in Japan rose by 172 in fiscal 2024 to 1,055, marking a record ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto allowed no runs and just one hit in a rain-shortened, five-inning start Wednesday as he pitched the Los ...

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) secured its lowest number of seats ever in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly election on ...

Japan's chief negotiator on Thursday set off for another round of tariff negotiations with the United States, reiterating ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday equated the American military's weekend airstrikes on Iran's key nuclear facilities ...

Visiting the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum and trying an AI system designed to answer questions using atomic bombing ...