Oil markets currently closed for the weekend are set to see price swings this week as the impact from the U.S. and Israeli strikes on oil supplies from the Middle East remains unclear. Scenarios ...

North Korea released a rare image on Saturday of leader Kim Jong Un's teenage daughter firing a rifle at a shooting range, adding to speculation that she is being groomed as his successor. Kim's ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has dismissed a 52-year-old police sergeant for photographing 20 female corpses he examined and taking the image data home. According to police, the police ...

A manga platform run by the major Japanese publisher Shogakukan Inc allowed an author to produce works under a different name despite knowing he was convicted of a sex crime, according to people ...

Japanese supermarket chain Daiei Inc said Friday it will change its brand name of all its stores in the greater Tokyo area to "Food Style" by 2030 under a strategy shift of its parent company to deal ...

The Japanese government said Friday it has become the largest shareholder in state-backed chipmaker Rapidus Corp, holding 11.5 percent of its voting rights in its latest push to establish a stable ...

Neil Sedaka, the hit-making singer-songwriter whose boyish soprano and bright melodies made him a top act in the early years of rock ‘n' roll and led to a second run of success in the 1970s, has died.

Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Friday fired back at China's continued criticism of Japanese attempts to reinforce its defense capabilities. "China appears to have been waging a propaganda ...

The Philippine, U.S. and Japanese militaries conducted joint exercises this week over the Bashi Channel that separates the Philippines from Taiwan, officials said Friday. Aircraft from the three ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said in the Diet on Friday that she opposes changing the imperial family's male succession rules. The comments are her clearest on the issue -- the subject of ...

A 22-meter robot arm will help remove a third sample of radioactive debris from inside Japan's stricken Fukushima nuclear plant, its operator said Thursday, as it unveiled the snake-like device.

In the days surrounding Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's February election win, several dozen X accounts linked to a Chinese misinformation campaign attacked her deeply conservative views and ...