The Japanese electorate appeared to punish the Liberal Democrats, leaving it unclear whether the party would be forced to expand its coalition to stay in power. By Motoko Rich Kiuko Notoya and ...

A performance by rapper Rod Wave at Sacramento’s Golden 1 Center was postponed Friday evening after mass panic following noises that sounded like gunshots but police believed to be firecrackers.

Kamikaze suicide planes sent by desperate Imperial Japan screamed down from the skies over Surigao Strait in the Philippines, terrifying American sailors, for the first time on this day in history ...

Scientists in Japan are mining DNA to try to make the country’s famous Koshihikari rice resistant to heat, after a broiling summer ravaged the crop. Koshihikari rice has for generations been the ...

27 general election, as he seeks to win over supporters of the conservative-leaning ruling bloc. Noda, who served as prime minister for around a year until December 2012 when the predecessor of his ...

By the late aughts, Visvim, Kapital, and Engineered Garments (an American brand owned by a Japanese company) were booming and being sold in stores around the world. That second wave rolled on for ...

Yoshihiko Noda, head of the main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, waves during a stump speech in Joetsu, Niigata Prefecture, on Oct. 16, 2024, ahead of the Oct. 27 general ...

The punishing post-COVID-19 wave of sovereign defaults has finally crested, with the likes of Ghana, Sri Lanka and Zambia concluding years of painful debt reworks. But the International Monetary ...