Just days after taking office, Japan's new leader faces a series of back-to-back foreign policy tests, with a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump in Tokyo sandwiched between Asia-region summits ...

A 26-year-old woman has gone on trial for allegedly killing her newborn baby son and burying his body in the garden of her parents’ home in Hokuto City, Hokkaido, in 2024. In the first session of the ...

The bodies of an 87-year-old man and his 84-year-old wife were found in their apartment in Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture, on Friday. According to police, there were no visible injuries on the couple ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi pledged in her policy speech on Friday to deal firmly with foreigners who violate the rules, emphasizing the need to distinguish such measures from xenophobia, though ...

Top economic officials from the U.S. and China will face off in Kuala Lumpur on Saturday to try to avert an escalation of their trade war and ensure that a meeting happens next week between U.S.

President Donald Trump’s administration escalated a U.S. military buildup in the Caribbean on Friday by announcing the deployment of the Gerald Ford aircraft carrier group to Latin America — a show of ...

Addison Barger blasted a towering grand slam as the Toronto Blue Jays thrashed the defending champion Los Angeles Dodgers 11-4 to take a 1-0 lead in Major League Baseball's World Series on Friday.

Thailand's Queen Mother Sirikit, who brought glamour and elegance to a postwar revival in the country's monarchy and who, in later years, would occasionally wade into politics, has died aged 93, the ...

Demonstrators protest outside the prime minister's office during a rally against the government of ultraconservative Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi in Tokyo on Friday night.

George Clooney plays an actor looking back at his past in Netflix's "Jay Kelly," but in real life, the U.S. star has his eyes on the future. "I'm not really ready to look backwards and sort of rest on ...

The most widely used COVID-19 vaccines may offer a surprise benefit for some cancer patients – revving up their immune systems to help fight tumors. People with advanced lung or skin cancer who were ...

Naoki Okamura, a 56-year-old teacher leading an initiative at Joshi Seigakuin Junior and Senior High School in Tokyo’s Kita Ward to include sunglasses in its dress code to protect students’ eyes from ...