Japan plans to map out a strategy within 2025 to boost defense equipment exports by enhancing the international competitiveness of its defense industry. The government aims to strengthen the industry’s...

Lamar Jackson delivered another impressive record as the Baltimore Ravens clinched the AFC North and the third seed in the conference with a 35-10 win over the Cleveland Browns on...

Seoul – South Korea’s suspended President Yoon Suk Yeol ignored the objections of key Cabinet ministers before his failed martial law bid last month, according to a prosecutors’ report seen...

Paris – On a flight I took recently from Paris to Osaka, the screen displaying our plane’s route reflected the state of the world in 2024: the aircraft zigzagged from...

The world’s oldest person, Japanese woman Tomiko Itooka, has died at the age of 116, the city where she lived, Ashiya, Hyogo Prefecture, announced Saturday. Itooka, who had four children...

Thirty-seven floors above Osaka’s bustling streets, French chef Yannick Alleno is orchestrating a conversation across oceans. At Sushi L’Abysse Osaka Yannick Alleno, his newest restaurant that opened in late October...

Hong Kong – Injury-ravaged Japanese veteran Kei Nishikori reached his first final in six years when China’s Shang Juncheng retired with an illness at the Hong Kong Open on Saturday....

Vienna – Austria’s conservative Chancellor Karl Nehammer said Saturday he would step down in the “coming days” after breaking off coalition talks with the Social Democrats over disagreements on key...

NEW YORK – A New York judge Friday upheld President-elect Donald Trump’s criminal conviction but signaled that he was inclined to spare him any punishment, a striking development in a...