Takaichi's rhetoric is lauded for "poking the hornets nest," yet this comment fails to grasp the difference between a ...

Police in Japan can from Thursday use rifles to shoot bears after strict gun laws were revised to help authorities battle a spate of fatal attacks. A record 13 people have been killed by the animals ...

It's embarrassing. This is what underdeveloped, third-world countries do - not the fourth-largest economy in the world. Japan ...

Police in Kakegawa, Shizuoka Prefecture, have re-arrested a 37-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of killing her 5-year-old daughter and placing her body in a freezer. According to police, Yoko ...

Trump not gonna risk world chaos fer little o Taiwan. Might not wanna believe it.

Asian shares mostly gained on Thursday after U.S. stocks settled near their records and U.S. President Donald Trump signed a government funding bill, ending the record 43-day shutdown. U.S. futures ...

Jeffrey Epstein wrote in a 2019 email to a journalist that Donald Trump “knew about the girls," according to documents made public Wednesday, but what he knew — and whether it pertained to the sex ...

Australia's conservative opposition said Thursday it will drop its commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 if it wins power and leads a country dependent on fossil fuels but highly ...

A decade on from deadly attacks in Paris, the world's two most notorious jihadist groups Islamic State (IS) and al-Qaida have significantly evolved and their branches still pose a global security ...

The government and the ruling Liberal Democratic Party are looking to triple the departure tax to 3,000 yen per person to fund measures against issues from a surge in inbound tourism, sources familiar ...

The Japanese government raised its gasoline subsidy by 5 yen to 15 yen per liter on Thursday as a temporary measure to curb prices and ease the burden on households ahead of its planned scrapping of ...

A deal to end the longest government shutdown in U.S. history cleared Congress on Wednesday, after the House of Representatives voted to restart disrupted food assistance, pay hundreds of thousands of ...