A 26-year-old man in Fukuoka has been arrested on suspicion of violating the anti-stalking law by posting defamatory comments about his 49-year-old ex-girlfriend. According to police, between December ...

The organizer of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka has recently decided to extend the sales of merchandise featuring the official Myaku-Myaku mascot for two more years, given the continuing ...

Seiya Suzuki has a minor ligament strain in his right knee and will be evaluated this week before the Chicago Cubs decide whether the Japanese outfielder will go on the injured list, manager Craig ...

Asian utilities are boosting coal-fired power generation to cut costs and safeguard energy supply, industry officials say, as the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran chokes liquefied ‌natural gas (LNG) shipments ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, in phone talks with his Iranian counterpart Tuesday, called on Iran to stop all actions that threaten safe passage through the strategic Strait of Hormuz, ...

The Defense Ministry held an exhibition of missile launchers and other equipment Tuesday at a Ground Self-Defense Force garrison in Kumamoto, southwestern Japan, ahead of a long-range missile ...

Shigeaki Mori, the survivor of the Hiroshima atomic bombing ‌whom former U.S. President Barack Obama embraced during a historic visit to the city in ‌2016, has died at 88, ⁠Jiji Press reported on ...

At least 400 people were killed and 250 injured in an air strike by Pakistan on a drug rehabilitation hospital in Kabul, a spokesman of the Afghan Taliban government said on Tuesday, a sharp ...

Japan has no plan to dispatch naval vessels to ‌escort vessels in the Middle East, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Monday, after U.S. President Donald Trump ‌called on allies to protect tankers ...

A high school student and a ship skipper died Monday after two boats capsized in waters near a construction site for a controversial U.S. military base relocation in the Japanese island prefecture of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump escalated his rhetoric against Cuba on Monday, saying he expected to have the "honor" of "taking Cuba in some form" and ‌that "I can do anything I want" with the ...

AI-created videos circulating on Elon Musk's X depict American soldiers captured by Iran, an Israeli city in ruins, and US embassies ablaze -- a surge of lifelike deepfakes despite a policy crackdown ...