Happiness is taking control of a beloved comic strip. Sony is buying a 41% stake in the Charles M. Schulz comic “Peanuts” and its characters including Snoopy and Charlie Brown from Canada's WildBrain ...

At the movies this fall, Josh O’Connor plays a hot priest with a complicated past, Keanu Reeves is an angel who lost his wings and Elizabeth Olsen has a romantic dilemma in the afterlife. Hollywood, ...

Japan reaffirmed its decades-old pledge never to possess nuclear weapons on Friday after local media reported that a ‌senior security official suggested the country should acquire them to deter ...

Doctor helicopters -- air ambulances that rush doctors straight to patients -- have been grounded one after another since the summer, exposing a crisis that officials warn could lead to the collapse ...

The Japanese government is planning on lowering passport application fees by up to around 7,000 yen, governmental sources said, utilizing part of the revenue from the departure tax that is expected to ...

A Japanese court has sentenced a 76-year-old woman to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for abandoning and hiding her daughter's body for about 20 years in a closet and a freezer at her ...

The Bank of Japan raised its key policy rate to a 30-year high on Friday to help curb inflation, as widely expected, and financial markets took the move in stride. The 0.25 percentage point hike took ...

A British luxury hotel operator said it plans to open a large-scale hotel near Universal Studios Japan in Osaka in 2029, as demand for accommodation is expected to grow in the bay area aided by the ...

The Saitama District Public Prosecutors Office has decided to have a 22-year-old man arrested on suspicion of killing two elderly women in October at the nursing home where he used to work, undergo a ...

Japan's ruling parties on Friday approved their tax reform plan for fiscal 2026, featuring measures to support households struggling with the rising cost of living, after taking into account the ...

Fumio Kimura, who leads a group called Ainu Neno An Ainu no Kai. An item listed as an Ainu “family register ledger” was sold on Yahoo Auctions, drawing outrage from members of the indigenous community ...

Czech skiers have a knack for pulling off the unexpected in super-G races. First there was Ester Ledecká's unforgettable win at the 2018 Pyeongchang Olympics, wearing low-ranked bib No. 26. And on ...