The first foreigner tapped to head 7-Eleven expressed confidence Friday the Japanese convenience store chain will continue to ...

Japan's greenhouse gas emissions fell by 4% to a record low in the fiscal year ended March 2024, government data showed on ...

Rising political figure Shinji Ishimaru has announced that his newly founded party will field 10 candidates in the upcoming ...

West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) has drastically changed the way it handles errors committed by its train drivers, shifting ...

Bereaved families and others paid their respects to victims of one of the nation’s deadliest railway accidents that occurred ...

Fans of the four remaining giant pandas at Adventure World here and local businesses are bracing for their return to the ...

NARA—The species resembling a "dragon" mummy that has long been kept in the Shosoin Repository here, a World Heritage site, ...

The South Korean government’s fact-finding commission suspended its groundbreaking investigation into the extensive fraud and ...

A deadly attack on tourists in Indian-controlled Kashmir has again moved India and Pakistan closer to war as the two rivals ...

Asian markets were higher early Friday after Wall Street rallied for the 3rd day, driven by hopes for the Federal Reserve to ...

The main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan plans to call for a temporary consumption tax exemption on food ...

Japan’s largest test plant for direct air capture (DAC) technology, which combats global warming by extracting carbon dioxide ...