Fukui City is historically significant for its status as a major political center under the Matsudaira clan during the Edo ...

Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps urged Americans to vote out U.S. President Donald Trump's allies in Congress as U.S.

Shuichiro Hoshi, a professor of criminal law at Tokyo Metropolitan University. One of two Chilean men indicted for stealing watches from a store in Tokyo and also stealing luxury watches from a Tokyo ...

People aged 65 and over account for a record-high 29.4 percent of Japan's population, the finalized 2025 census results showed Tuesday, 0.9 percentage point higher than in the previous survey in 2020 ...

A 46-year-old man from Tsubame City, Niigata Prefecture, has been arrested on suspicion of assault after he allegedly stabbed a bar customer in the back with a broken glass in Agano City, also in ...

Top-ranked Jannik Sinner has withdrawn from the Shanghai Masters as he deals with a knee problem. Sinner has not played since beating Alexander Zverev in the Wimbledon final. He withdrew from the U.S.

Kyoto plans to introduce dual pricing for admission fees to Nijo Castle, a UNESCO World Heritage site, as early as from fiscal 2027, charging out-of-town visitors twice as much as city residents, a ...

Seven years after becoming the second-highest grossing film ever, “Avengers: Endgame” returned to the No. 1 spot at the box ...

Japan will raise visa renewal and permanent residency issuance fees from Thursday. The new fees by the Immigration Services Agency of Japan are part of the revisions to the Immigration Control Act ...

Taylor Swift broke records at the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards, as she is known to do. The pop powerhouse received the inaugural Artist Director Honors on Sunday night, becoming the most-awarded artist ...

The judge in the Lindsay Clancy murder case on Thursday refused to declare her not guilty, turning down a defense motion that had argued there wasn't enough evidence to prove she was responsible for ...