Japan News and Discussion
Visitors walk past a Toyota and Toby Aviation aircraft at the Japan Mobility Show in Tokyo.
Jannik Sinner dismissed Ben Shelton 6-3, 6-3 to reach the Paris Masters semifinals for the first time on Friday and move closer to regaining the world No. 1…
President Donald Trump has opened the door for sanctions to be imposed on Nigeria for allegedly failing to rein in the persecution of Christians in the west African…
Continued staffing shortages in air traffic control facilities around the country were again causing delays at airports on Friday as the government shutdown neared the one-month mark. U.S.…
The mayor of a seaside city southwest of Tokyo who was accused of falsifying her educational background lost her job Friday after the municipal assembly adopted a second…
Rio de Janeiro authorities said on Friday they had identified most of those killed in the deadliest police operation in Brazil's history, as protesters denounced the high number…
Russian luge athletes were given hope of competing at the 2026 Winter Olympics after sport’s highest court ruled against a blanket ban on the country’s athletes on Friday…
(Reuters) -Tanzania's main opposition party said on Friday hundreds of people had been killed in protests over elections this week, as the U.N. secretary-general called for an investigation…
Pace bowlers Faheem Ashraf and Salman Mirza registered their best international T20 figures to guide Pakistan to a nine-wicket win over South Africa in Lahore on Friday. Ashraf…
A man on death row in South Carolina who taunted investigators with messages written with a victim's blood chose Friday to die by firing squad. Stephen Bryant, 44,…
Some 2,000 trucks were stranded Friday in Belarus after Lithuania closed its border in response to recent airspace disruptions, a truckers association said. Dozens of balloons loaded with…
President Donald Trump declined to say Friday whether he plans to resume underground nuclear detonation tests, as he had seemed to suggest in a social media post this…
Selling for nearly $1,000 a cup, a cafe in Dubai is offering the world's most expensive coffee, brewed from Panamanian beans sold at a premium price. The wealthy…
Israel’s top military prosecutor resigned Friday, admitting she was responsible for leaking a video showing soldiers assaulting a Palestinian detainee at a notorious military detention center, according to…
South Africa's government on Friday criticized the U.S. refugee policy shift that gives priority to Afrikaners, the country's white minority group of Dutch descent. The Trump administration on…
Disney content has gone dark on YouTube TV, leaving subscribers of the Google-owned live streaming platform without access to major networks like ESPN and ABC. That's because the…
Russia has deployed around 170,000 troops in Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk region where they are trying to capture the stronghold of Pokrovsk in a major push for a battlefield…
He has lost his title as prince, lost his rent-free mansion on the sprawling grounds next to Windsor Castle and lost whatever remained of his reputation in the…
A 69-year-old woman was arrested Friday in Nagoya on suspicion of killing another woman 26 years ago, police said, with the suspect identified by the victim's husband as…
Two federal judges ruled nearly simultaneously on Friday that President Donald Trump’s administration must continue to pay for SNAP, the nation’s biggest food aid program, using emergency reserve…
Back from a week abroad, President Donald Trump threw himself into the shutdown debate, calling on the Senate to scrap the filibuster and reopen the government, an idea…
Japan's new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said on Friday she raised "serious concerns" about the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Xinjiang in a "candid" first meeting with…
Multiple people who had been allegedly plotting a violent attack over the Halloween weekend were arrested Friday in Michigan, FBI Director Kash Patel said in a social media…
Detained local United Nations staff will face trial on suspicion of links to an Israeli airstrike that assassinated top Houthi leaders in Yemen in August, the acting foreign…
As Air Force One took off from South Korea's Busan airport after U.S.-China talks on Thursday, Chinese leader Xi Jinping's Hongqi N701 limousine whisked him off to the…
Japan's ruling and opposition parties agreed Friday to end the provisional gasoline tax rate at year-end but left unresolved how to make up for the loss in tax…
U.S. tech giant Nvidia said on Friday it will supply 260,000 of its most cutting-edge chips to South Korea, as CEO Jensen Huang met President Lee Jae Myung…
Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi reiterated Friday that all options are on the table to strengthen Japan's defense capabilities, including the use of nuclear power to propel Japanese…
China's Xi Jinping took center stage at an annual gathering of Pacific Rim leaders in South Korea on Friday, and will hold talks with his Japanese, Canadian and…
Liverpool face an in-form Aston Villa as the Premier League champions look to arrest their remarkable collapse on Saturday, while Arsenal aim to surge further clear in the…
