Japan’s birth rate has hit a new record low — just 720,988 births in 2024, marking the ninth consecutive year of decline. The consequences? A shrinking workforce, rising social security costs and a ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday rejected a request to halt the operation of a nuclear reactor run by Shikoku Electric Power Co ...

Japanese startup ispace on Tuesday set a June 6 target touchdown date for its moon lander, following the success of its ...

A man convicted of the 2019 fatal arson attack on a Kyoto Animation Co studio dropped his appeal against his death sentence because of his dissatisfaction with his defense's claim he was delusional, ...

Wet weather looked poised to offer relief Wednesday as Japan battled its worst wildfire in half a century in a northern ...

A director at a nursery school near Tokyo has been arrested on suspicion of property damage for allegedly filling a boy's water bottle with urine, rendering it unusable, local police said Wednesday.

The U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is considering letting go up to half of its approximately 90,000 employees, a source ...

China's defense spending will rise by 7.2 percent in 2025, the same as last year, Beijing said on Wednesday, as its armed ...

A rare tropical cyclone veered toward Australia's densely populated eastern coast on Wednesday, sparking emergency warnings, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump took a victory lap in an address to Congress on Tuesday, drawing catcalls and interruptions from ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's long-threatened tariffs are here, plunging the country into an escalating trade war with China, ...

The Pritzker Prize, dubbed the "Nobel" for architecture, was awarded Tuesday to China's Liu Jiakun, who was recognized for ...