Japanese elementary and junior high school students continued to get high science and math scores in an international survey in 2023, the education ministry said Wednesday. Japan’s average score for...

WASHINGTON – Advisers to Donald Trump publicly and privately are floating proposals to end the Ukraine war that would cede large parts of the country to Russia for the foreseeable...

SEOUL – South Korea’s parliament introduced a motion on Thursday to impeach President Yoon Suk Yeol over a botched attempt to impose martial law, but his party vowed to oppose...

PARIS – French lawmakers passed a no-confidence vote against the government on Wednesday, throwing the European Union’s second-biggest economic power deeper into a crisis that threatens its capacity to legislate...

Ryo Takebayashi’s documentary profiles the residents of a group home, but shies away from making emphatic statements about the circumstances that brought them there. Source link

British Japanese director Ema Ryan Yamazaki’s documentaries are a process of trying to understand the culture in which she grew up. “Koshien: Japan’s Field of Dreams” (2019) used a high...

East Japan Railway (JR East) will raise its standard fares as early as March 2026 to secure funds for capital investment, at a time when riders are decreasing due to...

Japan’s Nippon Steel is committed to its $15 billion acquisition of U.S. Steel and is confident of completing it by year-end, a senior executive has said, despite strong U.S. opposition...

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is planning to visit Japan next week to meet with Defense Minister Gen Nakatani, it was learned Wednesday. Through the visit, Japan and the U.S....