Kyoto Prefectural Police have arrested a 38-year-old man on suspicion of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old high school girl ...

The Nobel Peace Prize remains inseparably linked to the person or organization that ‌won it, though the medal can be given away, the Norwegian Nobel Committee said on Friday, a day after last year's ...

In a reversal from previous years' pollution reductions, the United States spewed 2.4% more heat-trapping gases from the burning of fossil fuels in 2025 than in the year before, researchers calculated ...

Yoshihiro Inatomi, a senior researcher of wildlife management with the Hokkaido Research Organization. Hokkaido sika deer causing record number of traffic accidents.

OpenAI says it will soon start showing advertisements to ChatGPT users who aren't paying for a premium version of the chatbot. The artificial intelligence company said Friday it hasn't yet rolled out ...

China's economy likely grew last year at its weakest rate in three decades, outside of the pandemic, according to an AFP survey of analysts ahead of official data on Monday. The world's second-largest ...

U.S. President Donald Trump suggested Friday that he may punish countries with tariffs if they don’t back the U.S. controlling Greenland, a message that came as a bipartisan Congressional delegation ...

A Japanese court rejected on Friday three death-row inmates' demands against the state to halt their executions by hanging as an inhumane practice in violation of an international convention ...

A Ukrainian delegation is en route to the U.S. for talks on security guarantees and a post-war recovery package, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on ‌Friday, expressing hope the documents could be ...

It’s no secret that Japan is getting a lot of foreign tourists these days, but it’s startling to see just how quickly their numbers have been ramping up. In 2019, right before the coronavirus pandemic ...

China has ‌initiated construction of a new natural ⁠resource development structure ‍in ‍the ‍East China ⁠Sea between China ​and Japan, the Japanese foreign ministry said in a ⁠statement on Friday, ...

Tensions are growing in east Asia. The threat of a Chinese attack on Taiwan persists and, in recent weeks, North Korea has been testing its long-range missile capabilities. Russia’s reorientation of ...