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Firefighters finally started gaining control over two major wildfires on the eastern and western flanks of Los Angeles on Friday.

Justice Juan Merchan gave Donald Trump a symbolic punishment. The judge said that leniency was due the office of the president, not the man...

Iwaya, who will be the first Japanese foreign minister to visit Seoul in seven years, will meet with his South Korean counterpart Cho Tae-yu...

The suspect, who said she is a South Korean national and student at the university, claimed to have lashed out after being bullied.

Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya would be the first Japanese Cabinet member to attend the swearing-in of a U.S. president.

The fantastical genre wherein characters are dropped into unlikely worlds — and sometimes bodies — can be read as an allegory for the struct...

Sozo Education aims to train Tokyo’s next crop of stylists not just in English vocabulary related to hairdressing but in the diverse needs o...

Producing toys under her kiko+ & gg* brand, the business owner hopes to encourage children to find their own unique paths in life.

Leaders also agreed to deepen cooperation in the maritime field, cybersecurity and the economy.

Ispace's Resilience lander will lift off aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

A Japanese-made paper planner from the 1980s has reblossomed in the post-COVID era.

A new plan envisions nuclear power making up 20% of Japan's energy mix by 2040. But hurdles to reactor restarts and rising electricity deman...

Greenland's geopolitical importance is rising as its ice sheet melts, and it is expected to be a key part of global shipping routes.

One proposal envisages an entertainment complex housing a circuit and a large arena.

Beijing has also been making substantial investments to defend, expand and fortify its air bases.

Under the current proposal, Apollo would join the Ito family and Itochu, the operator of FamilyMart in Japan, as key investors.

A clear acceleration in rising temperatures has puzzled scientists, even as the evidence of the fast-warming atmosphere became impossible to...

The full names and faces of soldiers of the rank of colonel and under are not to be displayed by the media under the new rules.

The ruling from the Atlanta-based U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit appeared to clear the way for the release of the report as earl...

New study used data from Gaza's health ministry, an online survey and social media obituaries to reach a best estimate of 64,260 deaths by J...

Investigators seeking to question Yoon on insurrection charges linked to his ill-fated declaration of martial law secured a new arrest warra...

The meteorite, collected by an Antarctic research expedition in 2000, will be shown to the public for the first time at the expo.

The arrest of opposition leader Maria Corina Machado marks a significant escalation by Nicolas Maduro, who was declared the winner of last y...

The world's biggest asset manager is the latest Wall Street firm to depart an environmentally focused investor group under pressure from Rep...

The Ukrainian president implored representatives from roughly 50 nations to maintain their military support for his country’s nearly three-y...