Comments by the US White House press secretary criticizing Japan for its levies on rice imports have drawn a response from ...

Russia's military says it has recaptured almost all areas of the country's Kursk region previously seized by Ukrainian forces ...

A public museum in the western Japanese city of Kochi says that one of the paintings in its collection is a counterfeit. It ...

Hundreds of phone calls appearing to come from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department have been reported across Japan. They ...

Syria's interim president Ahmed al-Sharaa has signed a constitutional declaration stating that the transitional period to a ...

The number of foreign residents in Japan has reached a record high of more than 3.7 million. The Immigration Services Agency ...

Malaysia's former prime minister is under investigation on allegations of corruption and money laundering during his term in ...

People in India and other South Asian nations are marking the arrival of spring with celebrations of Holi, the festival of ...

East Japan Railway has partially resumed operations of coupled Tohoku Shinkansen trains, following a suspension after two ...

Japanese immigration authorities recognized 1,661 people as "quasi-refugees" in 2024, the first year after the new status was ...

Gold prices rose in New York on Thursday, with gold futures touching a record high. The benchmark price of gold, viewed as a ...

Japan's Chief Cabinet Secretary Hayashi Yoshimasa has reiterated Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru's explanation on giving gift ...