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Yutaka Matsushige, a Japanese actor Japanese TV program “The Solitary Gourmet” quietly started in a late-night slot 14 years ago featuring a suit-clad, middle-aged man’s joy of
Shuli Ren, Bloomberg The Iran war is challenging Japan’s safe-haven assets, once again forcing domestic investors to seek better returns abroad. The yen slid past 160
Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (center) arrives at Joint Base Andrews, Md. The meeting that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will have at the White
Japan recorded a trade surplus of 57.3 billion yen ($360 million) in February, according to government data released yesterday, reversing from a deficit a month
Asia shares advanced yesterday, with benchmarks in Japan and South Korea jumping as oil prices fell back slightly despite a barrage of attacks by Iran on its
Punch the baby orphan macaque is outgrowing the orangutan plushie that comforted him through early rejection from his mother and other monkeys. Images of
Japanese technology and telecoms giant SoftBank Group Corp. swung back into profitability in the last quarter of 2025 as its investments in OpenAI and other
People clear snow near a building in Aomori Heavy snow piling up in northern Japan in the last two weeks has blocked roads and is
Scores gathered at a shrine in Japan’s Hakone to try and catch “lucky beans,” hoping to ward off evil spirits as they celebrate the last
Chinese tourist numbers to Japan have plummeted amid diplomatic frictions, security warnings, large-scale flight cancellations, and growing concerns over natural disasters and disease outbreaks, experts
A Japanese court sentenced a man who admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to life imprisonment yesterday. The case has revealed decades of cozy
Japanese FM Toshimitsu Motegi (left) and Philippine Foreign Secretary Theresa Lazaro shake hands in Manila, yesterday Japan and the Philippines signed a defense pact yesterday
Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi arrives to her office in Tokyo The pledge by Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to “work, work, work, work and work”
Just days after China issued an advisory against traveling to Japan, the cancellations started. About 3,000 Chinese visit Rie Takeda’s tearoom in an alley
Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western island started making the
President Xi Jinping shakes hands with Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi ahead of their meeting in Gyeongju, last month Less than a month into her term,
Sanae Takaichi (2nd R, front) attends the extraordinary session of the House of Representatives in Tokyo, last month Beijing has issued a cascade of warnings following
Following the unexpected release of a notice by the Chinese authorities on Friday, advising Chinese citizens to “temporarily refrain from traveling to Japan,” and a similar
Japan announced Friday that its seafood exports have resumed for the first time since China imposed a ban over the discharge of treated radioactive wastewater from the
A powerful quake rattled northern Japan yesterday evening, followed by several more temblors, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency. A tsunami advisory was issued. The earthquake,
Japan’s new Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi (above, left) and South Korean President Lee Jae Myung South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japan’s new Prime Minister
Toshimitsu Motegi, newly appointed foreign minister, arrives at the prime minister’s office in Tokyo Japan’s new foreign minister said yesterday his country plans to show its determination
Lawmakers applaud as Sanae Takaichi was elected as Japan’s new prime minister during the extraordinary session of the lower house, in Tokyo, yesterday Japan’s parliament elected ultraconservative
Kristal Hilaire, a daughter of Australian citizen Donna Nelson, speaks to reporters at the Tokyo District Court, yesterday A Japanese court yesterday dismissed an appeal by an Australian
A three-hour film about the esoteric world of Kabuki is defying the odds at the Japanese box office, with tickets selling out at some cinemas. “Kokuho,” which
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung (left) meets Japan’s Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo South Korean President Lee Jae Myung, in his first summit with Japanese
Genshitsu Sen XV, grand tea master of the Urasenke School of Tea, performs a traditional Japanese Tea Ceremony on the USS Arizona Memorial at Pearl Harbor, July 19, 2011,
South Korean President Lee Jae Myung will meet Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo next week before flying to Washington for a summit with President Donald
Ports on the Kamchatka Peninsula in Russia near the 8.8 magnitude quake's epicenter flooded as residents fled inland, and frothy, white waves washed up to the shore
Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror films set within the neurotic realism of the modern day, will bring his signature edge-of-your-seat storytelling to a genre he
TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said today (Monday) he will stay in office to tackle challenges such as rising prices and high U.S. tariffs after a weekend election
Russia’s foreign minister warned the U.S., South Korea and Japan against forming a security partnership targeting North Korea as he visited his country’s ally for talks on
The Japanese army yesterday began deploying its fleet of V-22 Ospreys on a newly opened permanent base in southwestern Japan, in the country’s latest move to strengthen
A laser navigating tool doomed a Japanese company’s lunar lander earlier this month, causing it to crash into the moon. Officials for ispace announced the news from
Okinawa marked the 80th anniversary of the end of one of the harshest battles of World War II fought on the southern island. With global
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