U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on Japanese goods are a "national crisis", Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday ahead of cross-party talks on mitigating the impact. Japanese firms are the ...

Momuri is a Japanese business that offers assistance in quitting jobs. Most people, when hearing this at first, assume their clients must be a bunch of weak-willed people. However, when learning more ...

Police in Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, said Thursday that a woman whose body was found in a wooded area on Wednesday, was strangled. A city employee looking for illegal rubbish dumping found the woman’s ...

The number of yakuza members and associates in Japan fell to a record low of 18,800 at the end of last year amid a rise in anonymous, ad hoc criminal groups, according to the latest National Police ...

Top congressional Democrats on Thursday protested the reported firing of Gen. Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, with one lawmaker saying the decision "makes all of us less safe.” ...

Security at Melbourne Cricket Ground will be ramped up after two men were charged over smuggling handguns and bullets into a crowd of over 82,000 Australian Rules fans, police said Friday. Victoria ...

What an unhappy country this is, ranking a dismal 55th in this year’s World Happiness Report. Why should it be so? Japan is democratic and at peace, its streets are safe, its cities clean, its ...

On the outskirts of Paris, 44-year-old French Muslim weightlifter Sylvie Eberena concentrates hard and pushes 80 kilos of bar and weights clean over her veiled head. The single mother made her four ...

South Korea's Constitutional Court on Friday decided to oust President Yoon Suk Yeol, upholding parliament's impeachment motion over his short-lived imposition of martial law last year that sparked ...

A 58-year-old employee of Ozu, Kumamoto Prefecture, has been arrested on suspicion of indecent assault after he forcibly kissed a female acquaintance in her 50s. The incident occurred at around 4 p.m.

The bereaved family of a Sri Lankan woman who died in detention at an immigration facility in Japan in 2021 will file a lawsuit seeking the disclosure of all security camera footage leading up to her ...

An original model of E.T., created for Steven Spielberg's beloved film "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial," did not find a buyer after being put up for auction, Sotheby's auction house in New York said ...