A test run for the 2025 world exposition in Osaka kicked off Friday, with stakeholders and selected local residents given the opportunity to experience some of the pavilions over three days. Around 90 ...

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 27-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting his 62-year-old father by throwing a TV remote control at his head, causing a laceration. According to police, the incident ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's most expansive tariffs to date have already taken the world on a rollercoaster ride, with Japan no exception, yet there could be adjustments with key trading partners ...

U.S. employers added a surprising 228,000 jobs last month, showing that the American labor market was in solid shape as President Donald Trump embarked on a risky trade war with the rest of the world.

Lawyer Atsushi Iseda, head of an organization that runs seminars on what should people should do to ensure the smooth transfer of their digital legacies.

A federal judge on Friday moved the case of a detained Tufts University doctoral student to Vermont, where the Turkish national was briefly held before being moved to an immigration detention facility ...

Police in Fukushima City have arrested a 36-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of attempting to help a girl in her late teens he met on social media commit suicide. According to police, Hiroki ...

A Russian missile attack killed at least 16 people, including six children, in a residential area of the Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih on Friday, local officials said, but Russia's Defense Ministry ...

Japanese spend a lot of time thinking about manners, and spend a lot of time riding trains too. So that means, of course, that people in Japan also spend a lot of time thinking about manners related ...

Overall World Cup skiing champion Federica Brignone was still smiling Friday despite the very real possibility that her Olympic dream could be over. Barely 24 hours after breaking multiple bones in ...

Walking is one of the most popular forms of exercise in the world. It costs nothing, can be done almost anywhere and provides numerous health benefits. It decreases the risk and severity of chronic ...

British comedian and actor Russell Brand denied rape and sexual assault allegations on Friday after being charged with five offenses by London's Metropolitan Police. Brand, 49, who became known ...