Los Angeles – A ferocious wildfire in a Los Angeles suburb devoured buildings and sparked panicked evacuations Tuesday, as hurricane-force winds tore through the region. Frightened residents abandoned their cars...

During the Yokozuna Deliberation Council (YDC) soken practice session at Ryogoku Kokugikan in Tokyo on Monday it was hard to avoid reminders that, in the words of Rocky Balboa, “Time...

Nihon Hidankyo on Wednesday expressed disappointment at being unable to discuss Japan’s possible participation as an observer to a U.N. conference on banning nuclear weapons during their 30-minute meeting with...

Economy minister Yoji Muto on Wednesday called for business leaders to continue to raise wages this year to put the country’s economy on a sustainable growth path. In this year’s...

SEOUL – South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol faces a new and potentially more robust attempt to arrest him for insurrection after a top investigator vowed to do whatever it...

Kyoto – Following its success in automating the process of creating induced pluripotent stem cells, Kyoto University’s CiRA Foundation will start producing iPS cells from patients’ own cells utilizing the...

Almost 100 companies were delisted from the Tokyo Stock Exchange in 2024, the most in a decade, as standards were tightened and investors became more demanding. The high number of...

The cities of Toyama and Osaka have been featured in The New York Times’ list of “52 Places to Go in 2025.” Toyama, which is located between the Sea of...

Naha – Police in the prefecture of Okinawa on Wednesday sent papers on a U.S. Marine in his 30s to public prosecutors for alleged nonconsensual sexual intercourse resulting in injury....