TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, in her first major policy speech on Friday, pledged to further accelerate Japan’s military buildup and spending and complete an early upgrade of ...

London's Royal Albert Hall has swapped violins for loincloths this week as 40 sumo wrestlers take part in the city's first Grand Sumo Tournament in 34 years. The five-day event marks the Japan Sumo ...

Is the reemergence of Japanese financial markets and risk appetite a secular shift or just a mirage in a wide desert? That is what international banks have been wondering for a while but recent moves ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan’s embattled governing party now has its new leader, former Economic Security Minister Sanae Takaichi, a hard-line conservative who is poised to become the country’s first female ...

Scientists off Japan found a deep-sea creature with 18 “dark yellow eggs” and discovered a new species, a study said. Getty Images/iStockphoto Thousands of feet down off the coast of Japan swam a pink ...

The strong performance of global stock markets since Donald Trump’s so-called “liberation day” has been a surprise to many investors. Perhaps the most surprising of all is the strength of the ...

The Lone Bellow have played plenty of big festivals over the years, ranging from the Newport Folk Festival in Rhode Island to the Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in San Francisco, but the Brooklyn ...

When Ding Xiaohan, a software engineer from Shanghai, took her 18-year-old son to Japan for a weeklong holiday this summer, she did not hold back. The 47-year-old spent freely as they explored the ...

TOKYO, Sept 19 (Reuters) - Japan's Sanae Takaichi launched a bid on Friday to become the first woman prime minister, pledging state spending and targeted tax relief as part of a master plan for growth ...

TOKYO (AP) — The U.S. Army revealed Monday its mid-range missile system, Typhon, at one of its bases in Japan for the first time as the two allies stepped up their deterrence against China ‘s growing ...

TOKYO — The Australian embassy in Japan issued a warning to travellers to behave themselves after an Instagrammer drank offerings from a Japanese burial site, provoking widespread anger online. In the ...

Approximately ten per cent of the world's active volcanoes can be found in Japan JAPAN has released a terrifying AI-generated video showing residents what could happen if Mount Fuji erupted. The ...