A 30-year-old Sri Lankan national was arrested on suspicion of robbery resulting in injury after an incident on a street in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, the Metropolitan Police Department said Thursday. The ...

U.S. officials have discussed sending lump sum payments to Greenlanders as part of a bid to convince them to secede from Denmark and potentially join the United States, according to four sources ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average gained on Friday, powered by a surge in megacap Uniqlo store operator Fast Retailing on the back ...

Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama said on Friday she would meet her counterparts in the United States next week to discuss rare earths supplies, and repeated Tokyo’s condemnation of China ...

The number of foreign residents living in Japan has continued to hit record highs, suggesting the arrival of an era that sees more Japanese people living together with foreign nationals. While foreign ...

A passerby made an emergency call, reporting that smoke was rising at a building in Naniwa Ward, Osaka, around 10:35 a.m. on Friday.

Dogs are great at learning action commands like “sit” and “stay.” They’re less good at remembering the names of things, like what their squeaky or stuffed toys are called.

Venezuela released a number of citizens and foreigners from its prisons on Thursday in what a top government official described as a gesture to “seek peace” less than a week after former President ...

Denmark and Greenland’s envoys to Washington have begun a vigorous effort to urge U.S. lawmakers as well as key Trump administration officials to step back from President Donald Trump’s call for a ...

Ten years since Netflix launched in Japan, the streaming platform has ventured into its first Japanese period drama series. “Last Samurai Standing,” whose Japanese title is “Ikusagami,” centers on ...

JAM Project, a group of singers specializing in anime songs (anison), held a series of concerts in Osaka and Yokohama in November to celebrate the 25th anniversary.JAM stands for Japan Animation Song ...

Japanese annual household spending unexpectedly grew in November, government data showed on Friday, rebounding from a sharp decline in October and aligning with a gradual recovery in private ...