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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A Japanese court on Friday ruled that regulations setting a minimum age to run for public office are constitutional, rejecting claims by plaintiffs currently in their 20s seeking to lower the ...

While sex may sell, affairs are guaranteed to attract attention worldwide. A quick Google search shows there’s also a common belief that Japan is tolerant of adultery. Just as with sex, attitudes ...

Target said that it is eliminating about 1,800 corporate positions in an effort to streamline decision-making and accelerate initiatives to rebuild the flagging discount retailer’s customer base.