Prosecutors on Thursday sought life imprisonment for the man standing trial over the fatal shooting of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 that shed light on the controversial ...

Earlier this week, Tokyo’s Ueno Zoo announced that its twin giant pandas, Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei, will be leaving Japan. Fans knew this would happen someday, as the pandas, though born at Ueno Zoo, are ...

Peter Arnett, the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter who spent decades dodging bullets and bombs to bring the world eyewitness accounts of war from the rice paddies of Vietnam to the deserts of Iraq, has ...

The U.S. Treasury Department said Wednesday it will extend an exemption allowing companies to process transactions related to the Sakhalin 2 oil and natural gas development project in the Russian Far ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Thursday promised a crackdown on hate speech in the wake of an attack on a Jewish holiday event at Sydney's Bondi beach, as the youngest ‌of 15 victims ...

The United States on Wednesday approved $11.1 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, the largest ever U.S. weapons package for the island which is under increasing military pressure from ‌China. The Taiwan ...

Bereaved relatives placed flowers and offered prayers Wednesday at the site of a mental health clinic in Osaka where 26 people perished in a fire set by an arsonist in 2021. The fire was started at ...

Hundreds of people across Japan sued the central government Thursday seeking damages for "unconstitutional" inaction on climate change, the country's first such litigation. The landmark lawsuit ...

"Lifting a rock only to drop it on one's own foot" is a well known Chinese aphorism that's roughly equivalent to the English expression of shooting oneself in the foot. On November 7, Japan's new ...

Tokyo University of Agriculture Prof Koji Yamazaki who specializes in animal ecology. The Environment Ministry plans to launch a nationwide survey next fiscal year to accurately determine the bear ...

Like a lot of people, visits to the bathroom on my first few trips to Japan were a source of a lot of surprises, from “Whoa, this toilet is so high-tech that it has a heated seat and washes your ...

FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino said Wednesday that he will resign from the bureau next month, ending a brief and tumultuous tenure in which he clashed with the Justice Department over the handling of ...