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Since the end of the COVID pandemic, articles have been appearing sporadically in the tabloid press about Japanese females who embark on sho...

Japan's Hana Yoshida performs during the women's short program competition at the Figure Skating Road to 26 Trophy, in Milan, Italy, on Wedn...

Japan recorded a trade deficit of 2.76 trillion yen in January, the Finance Ministry reported Wednesday, as worries continue to grow about l...

More than 150 false killer whales are stranded on a remote beach on Australia’s island state of Tasmania, officials said on Wednesday.Marin...

Brazil's former President Jair Bolsonaro was charged on Tuesday in a plot to overturn his 2022 election loss, the office of the country's to...

Formula 1 is kick-starting its 75th anniversary season with music, glitz and glamor Tuesday as the race series aims to reach beyond a sports...

Red-crowned cranes, designated as a Japanese special national treasure, frolic during the mating season on their snow-covered feeding ground...

A Chinese navy helicopter flew within 10 feet (3 meters) of a Philippine patrol plane on Tuesday in a disputed area of the South China Sea,...

South Korean actor Kim Sae-ron’s death this week has triggered an outpouring of grief and calls for changes to the way the country’s celebri...

Australia’s central bank on Tuesday reduced its benchmark interest rate for the first time since October 2020 as the nation’s inflation cool...

The Russian government on Monday released a U.S. citizen that had been detained on charges of possession of a small amount of marijuana, ahe...

Eight people were injured when a plane carrying 80 passengers flipped as it landed at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday, offic...

High-level Taliban officials have arrived in Japan, their hosts Japanese grant-making organization Nippon Foundation said Monday, making it...

The Trump administration has halted the firings of hundreds of federal employees who were tasked with working on the nation's nuclear weapon...

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday he was ready to send British troops to Ukraine as part of any postwar peacekeeping force...

The IRS will lay off thousands of probationary workers in the middle of tax season, according to two sources familiar with the agency's plan...

Snow domes are pictured during an annual snow festival held on the weekend, dating back around 450 years, in the Akita Prefecture city of Yo...

Three fights in the first nine seconds and a chorus of deafening boos for the U.S. national anthem marked a stormy ice hockey clash between...

Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani threw his first bullpen of spring training on Saturday, taking a step toward possibly pitching f...

Japan's Kosei Hayashi holds the silver medal after the men's 1,500 meters final of the ISU Short Track World Tour and Olympics Milano-Cortin...

A record-high 279 people were accused by Japanese police of using online casinos in 2024, more than twice the number a year earlier, accordi...

Workers all over the country responded with anger and confusion Friday as they grappled with the Trump administration 's aggressive effort t...

Japanese race walker Koki Ikeda, a former Olympic silver medalist, has been banned for four years for doping, the Athletic Integrity Unit sa...

China accused Australia on Friday of deliberately provoking it with a maritime patrol in the disputed South China Sea this week, saying the...

A fire broke out at a resort construction site in the South Korean city of Busan on Friday, killing at least six people, fire officials said...