The Japanese pension system is a joke. Seniors living in poverty or working to supplement their income are on the rise as ...

Police in Ichikawa, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of groping a female junior high school student on an escalator at JR Nishi-Funabashi Station. The incident occurred ...

President Donald Trump said Friday that the U.S. was going to help with the response to Southeast Asia's deadly earthquake. But the effects of his administration's deep cuts in foreign assistance ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency will launch its official YouTube channel next month to showcase the activities of Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako as well as other members of the imperial family.

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth attended on Saturday a war memorial service on Iwoto Island in the Pacific as he kicked off his first official visit to Japan, showcasing the alliance between the ...

A federal judge in Massachusetts ordered on Friday barred the deportation of a Turkish doctoral student at Tufts University, who voiced support for Palestinians in Israel's war in Gaza and was ...

The death toll from a huge earthquake that hit Myanmar and Thailand passed 1,000 on Saturday, as rescuers dug through the rubble of collapsed buildings in a desperate search for survivors. The shallow ...

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will investigate diversity efforts at the Walt Disney Company, the head of the U.S. agency said. Disney and its subsidiary ABC are being targeted as part of ...

Mikihito Tanaka, a professor at Waseda University in Tokyo, saying many in Japan believe scientists are working behind closed doors. Japan ranked low in a global survey on public trust in scientists, ...

A federal judge has temporarily blocked the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing parts of President Donald Trump’s executive orders aimed at curbing diversity, equity and inclusion efforts among ...

Multiple examinees who took a Japanese language test for non-native speakers in December submitted papers deemed ungradable, a source at the Foreign Ministry said Friday, amid a discovery of an answer ...

Novak Djokovic stands on the brink of a landmark 100th professional title at the Miami Open, with the Serb saying he is playing his best tennis in a "long time" A comfortable 6-2, 6-3 win over Grigor ...