U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs on Japanese goods are a "national crisis", Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said Friday ahead of cross-party talks on mitigating the impact. Japanese firms are the ...

Momuri is a Japanese business that offers assistance in quitting jobs. Most people, when hearing this at first, assume their clients must be a bunch of weak-willed people. However, when learning more ...

The Japanese Grand Prix on Sunday is only the third Formula 1 race of the season, and several plots are developing that promise a few twists in addition to the turns on the famous Suzuka circuit. But ...

Yes, this has been an ongoing issue in Japan. It's hardly fair and promotes racial profiling and discrimination against ...

On the outskirts of Paris, 44-year-old French Muslim weightlifter Sylvie Eberena concentrates hard and pushes 80 kilos of bar and weights clean over her veiled head. The single mother made her four ...

Japan's government said Thursday that it will send a team of infrastructure experts to Thailand following a deadly building collapse triggered by last week's massive earthquake centered in neighboring ...

Top congressional Democrats on Thursday protested the reported firing of Gen. Tim Haugh as director of the National Security Agency, with one lawmaker saying the decision "makes all of us less safe.” ...

The number of yakuza members and associates in Japan fell to a record low of 18,800 at the end of last year amid a rise in anonymous, ad hoc criminal groups, according to the latest National Police ...

"Haugh had led both the NSA and Cyber Command since 2023. Both departments play leading roles in the nation’s cybersecurity.

Police in Maibara, Shiga Prefecture, said Thursday that a woman whose body was found in a wooded area on Wednesday, was strangled. A city employee looking for illegal rubbish dumping found the woman’s ...

What an unhappy country this is, ranking a dismal 55th in this year’s World Happiness Report. Why should it be so? Japan is democratic and at peace, its streets are safe, its cities clean, its ...

A word you would have seen a lot from late February through the end of March is shinseikatsu (新生活). Shinseikatsu means "new life," and, just as the word indicates, implies beginning a new phase of ...