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The award of a contract to operate London’s Elizabeth Line to a consortium that includes the firm could help address concerns about its dome...

Ease of meeting a wide range of people is understood to be the biggest appeal of app use, underscoring a major recent shift in how young peo...

Such batteries will replace liquid-state lithium-ion batteries currently in use, Honda R&D chief Keiji Otsu says.

Investigators suspect 26-year-old Ryotaro Masuda repeatedly beat his girlfriend, using money she received from coerced involvement with othe...

Executives at Ohkawara Kakohki were arrested in 2020 on suspicion of illegally exporting chemical machinery, but the charges were later drop...

Bain-backed Kioxia will have a market value of about ¥750 billion ($4.84 billion) based on the indicative price for its initial public offer...

After a stellar career, Kitanofuji remained popular in retirement for delivering witty comments during live sumo tournament broadcasts.

The 10th edition of the event will feature a six-game, three-day format for round-robin matches.

Sweden and Finland have opened investigations into potential "sabotage" against cables damaged on Sunday and Monday in the Baltic Sea.

A British mandate requires at least 22% of an automaker's new car sales in 2024 to be purely EVs, or they face hefty fines.

Hong Kong's Apple Daily was once the city's most popular tabloid by punching up against the Chinese Communist Party. But Beijing had the las...

The panel will be led by Elon Musk, billionaire CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, and Vivek Ramaswamy, founder of biotech firm Roivant Sciences.

There was no concrete progress with China's leader on some issues, including the detention of Japanese nationals.

The Yi Peng 3 bulk carrier was in the vicinity of fiber optic cables — one connecting Finland and Germany, and another, Lithuania and Sweden...

Operations have focused for weeks on the northern edge of Gaza, where Israel has laid siege to three major towns and ordered residents to fl...

The film’s two-hour running time breezes by as a strait-laced tax officer joins a colorful crew of con artists.

Rengo's Tomoko Yoshino was keen to emphasize that wage gains have to spread more to workers at smaller firms.

U.S. diplomatic efforts, led by envoy Amos Hochstein, are focused on brokering a ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah to prevent further r...

Early afternoon Kadokawa shares were up 15.91% to ¥4,341 on the Tokyo Stock Exchange.

The package will include cash handouts to lower-income households and subsidies to help families cope with rising utility bills.

The lawsuit focused on changes in levels of base-related noise since U.S. carrier-based aircraft were relocated to the Iwakuni base in Yamag...

It would be hard to paint Ishiba's trip as a success, with the prime minister committing a series of diplomatic faux pas.

Decades of sporadic conflict between the military and ethnic rebel groups have left Myanmar littered with deadly landmines and munitions.

For some analysts, the central bank is all but certain to raise rates next month, though others think it might be too early.

The nations also reiterated their “unwavering commitment” to seeing the next-generation supersonic jet take to the sky by 2035.