The government plans to raise the bar for granting permanent residency to foreigners by requiring incomes higher than the ...

Ukrainian dynamo Aonishiki captured his third top-division title at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday, winning a ...

UNESCO decided Sunday to add a group of ancient sites in Nara Prefecture that show the formation of Japan's centralized ...

Now China is increasingly looking to dominate AI abroad, too. At a flagship technology summit in Shanghai, Chinese President ...

France sent a hulking military cargo plane to dump tons of flame retardants as it battled raging wildfires on Saturday ...

Japan's consumers are moving away from leather shoes. Or so it is said. Office attire is becoming more casual, and the ...

A recent social media post by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi lamenting her chronic sleep deprivation and demanding workload ...

A van slammed into people gathered for Berlin's famed Pride festival on Saturday night, killing one person, injuring at least ...

Yemen's Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Saturday that they fired missiles and drones at Saudi Arabia in response to Saudi ...

Toyota Motor Corp. President Kenta Kon said the company will strengthen profitability by sending more employees from its ...

A Western-style mansion that still evokes the atmosphere of Japan's Taisho era (1912-1926) stands on a prime site in central ...

Tadahito Iguchi, who previously managed the Lotte Marines, has been tapped as the next skipper of Japan's national baseball ...