Panda memorial
A memorial service is held for giant panda Tan Tan at Oji Zoo in Kobe on Friday. Japan's oldest giant panda, she died at 28 at the end of…
A memorial service is held for giant panda Tan Tan at Oji Zoo in Kobe on Friday. Japan's oldest giant panda, she died at 28 at the end of…
An 82-year-old man and his 78-year-old wife died after the car they were in went off a pier at a fishing point in Fukuoka on Thursday night, in…
Sega Sammy is selling its resort complex Seagaia to Fortress Investment Group of the U.S., the Japanese entertainment company said Friday. Tokyo-based Sega Sammy Holdings, the company behind…
Japan's parliament on Friday enacted an amended law aimed at facilitating the swift removal of defamatory content on social media platforms like Facebook and X with more transparency.…
Stocks in Asia traded higher Friday after a rally on Wall Street that pulled the S&P 500 back within 1% of its record. Benchmarks rose in Tokyo, Seoul,…
Artemi Panarin redirected a pass between his legs at the crease to beat Pyotr Kochetkov just 1:43 into overtime and the New York Rangers beat the Carolina Hurricanes…
Australia announced on Friday that it would hold a parliamentary inquiry to look into the negative impacts of social media platforms, saying they have significant reach and control…
The rate of guns stolen from cars in the U.S. has tripled over the last decade, making them the largest source of stolen guns in the country, an…
A Japan Air Self-Defense Force plane carrying eight people made an emergency landing at a commercial airport in central Japan Thursday after a cockpit window inadvertently slid open…
For a brief stretch on Thursday, Rafael Nadal looked every bit of a weary 37-year-old player nearing retirement. Struggling to produce pace off both sides with his groundstrokes,…
The Japan Basketball Association decided on Thursday not to restore a former high school teacher's coaching license, saying he has not shown full remorse for administering physical punishment…
FIFA has been warned of legal action from players and national leagues if it does not backtrack on adding new and bigger competitions to the congested calendar of…
Top U.S. and Chinese diplomats in charge of North Korean affairs held talks in Tokyo on Thursday, the State Department said, as Pyongyang's relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons…
Tourists have a few more days to snap Mount Fuji at a popular vantage point after Japanese authorities said Thursday that the construction of a barrier has been…
Suspected militants blew up a school for girls in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban in the country's volatile northwest, badly damaging the structure but no one…
Thousands of protesters gathered Thursday in the Armenian capital, Yerevan, to demand the resignation of Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan over his government's decision to hand over control of…
Mike Johnson's job isn't safe yet. In a stunning show of unity in the often divided House, Democrats joined a majority of Republicans on Wednesday to save the…
People walk nearby a life size model of a whale displayed at the National Science Museum in Tokyo on Thursday. Japan's Fisheries Agency on Thursday said it has…