This time of the year, holiday cheer is in the air with staple クリスマス (Kurisumasu, Christmas) songs from ワム! (Wamu!, Wham!) and マライア・キャリー (Maraia Kyarī, Mariah Carey) being played almost...

Parliament on Tuesday enacted the government’s ¥13.9 trillion ($90 billion) supplementary budget for fiscal 2024 to finance the first comprehensive economic policy package under Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s administration. The...

Copenhagen – Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was on Tuesday released from detention in Greenland, after Denmark decided to refuse a Japanese extradition request over a 2010 clash with whalers. Watson...

A revised bill to abolish specific political funds allocated to lawmakers for their political activities — criticized for their lack of transparency — cleared the Lower House on Tuesday, with...

Port Vila, Vanuatu – A powerful earthquake hit the Pacific island of Vanuatu on Tuesday, smashing buildings in the capital Port Vila including one used by foreign embassies, with a...

Three Cambodian women in their 20s have filed a lawsuit against their former employer over allegations he raped one of the women over a five-month period, with local media reporting...

For the first time in seven years Japan has a new college football champion. In a thrilling back-and-forth shootout at Koshien Stadium on Sunday, Ritsumeikan University Panthers finally overcame dogged...

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s administration was thrown into crisis when his trusted deputy, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland, published a withering resignation letter on Monday that left him weakened at the...

The New York Times – After seven years of medical school in Myanmar, May finally achieved her goal of becoming a doctor. But a month after she graduated and found...