Asian shares were moderately higher and U.S. futures were mixed after the Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate Friday to its highest level in 30 years and U.S. inflation cooled more than expected.

Japanese actor Hiroya Shimizu, known for his role in the "Tokyo Revengers" movie series, was sentenced Friday to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for possessing marijuana. In handing ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 22-year-old woman who works at an adult entertainment establishment on suspicion of mutilating and abandoning the body of her newborn baby daughter, and leaving the ...

The Bank of Japan hiked interest rates to a 30-year high of 0.75 percent on Friday, the first increase since January, as it said the economy had shown signs of improvement. The unanimous vote to lift ...

Tokyo’s Shibuya neighborhood is one of the most popular, and crowded, parts of the city. In particular the part of the district that stretches from Shibuya Station, across the world-famous Shibuya ...

A man credited with saving lives for wrestling a gun from one of the alleged attackers during a mass ‌shooting at Australia's Bondi beach received a check for more than A$2.5 million ($1.65 million) ...

European Union leaders agreed on Friday to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years, but they failed to bridge differences with ...

Australia will launch a national gun buyback scheme following the mass shooting in Sydney, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Friday, as hundreds of surfers and swimmers paddled out at ‌Bondi ...

The suspect in the mass shooting at Brown University last weekend is dead, a U.S. ‌attorney said, as authorities investigate whether the same person killed a Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...

European Union leaders agreed on Friday to provide a massive interest-free loan to Ukraine to meet its military and economic needs for the next two years, EU Council President Antonio Costa said. “We ...

I remember one of the past ministers (perhaps of tourism) saying that Japan should now aim to 60M a year but it could even ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday signed into law a nearly $1 trillion annual defense policy bill, despite provisions providing new ‌aid to Ukraine and reining in his ability to dial down U.S.