Outlays by households adjusted for inflation gained 1.8% in September from a year earlier, led by transportation and entertainment.

Munster centre Tom Farrell will become the oldest back to make an Ireland debut in the professional era after being selected to start Saturd...

Police are set to cull bears in Akita and Iwate, which have seen an increase in attacks on local residents, with operations scheduled to beg...

At least 12 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in bear attacks across Japan since April.

The deployment comes following a surge of bear attacks in Japan's northern Akita prefecture.(Image credit: Muneyoshi Someya)

The total quota for the squid was initially set at 19,200 tons, following poor catches in recent years, but catches turned out to be better...

Taiwanese telco Chunghwa Telecom has unveiled a slate of film and TV projects in partnership with Taiwanese creators and regional co-product...

An estimated 28,000 pieces of space debris orbited Earth in 2024, or about 80% more than in 2009, according to NASA, increasing the risk of...

One of the ways American adolescents have been known to harass those beneath them in the social pecking order is by belittling their masculi...

Kenshi Yonezu’s “IRIS OUT” continues to dominate the Billboard Japan Hot 100 for the seventh consecutive week, on the chart released Nov....

Japanese soldiers are helping in the fight against deadly bear attacks in the country’s north.

By YURI KAGEYAMA, Associated Press Business WriterTOKYO (AP) — Toyota reported a 7% year-on-year drop in profit for April-September on Wedn...

SoftBank's joint venture with OpenAI that will localize and sell the AI company's enterprise tech to companies in Japan. And the first custo...

A historian’s hunch about what might lie hidden within the walls of a Japanese church in Salt Lake City led congregants to uncover a century...

Japan’s new prime minister wasted no time stepping into the global spotlight and straight into Donald Trump’s orbit.During her first week i...