Shohei Ohtani got a second straight day off Friday while the Los Angeles Dodgers superstar deals with assorted injuries. Ohtani smiled and laughed in the dugout while watching Thursday's game, going ...

Inspired by the "miracle" rescue of two hydropower workers, Nepal's emergency response teams were digging with new vigor Saturday through piles of debris as the death toll from the flooding disaster ...

A former Japanese defense minister on Friday described a U.S. decision to sanction the International Criminal Court and its Japanese president as an outright attack on the rules-based international ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday congratulated Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on breaking Italy's record for the longest-serving uninterrupted government since World War II.

The yen rallied against the dollar on Thursday on fresh talk of intervention by Japan to boost its currency, while oil prices jumped on new Iran strikes against U.S. targets in the Gulf region. Bond ...

ranian mourners carried caskets at a funeral on Thursday for victims of a U.S. airstrike said to have struck a wedding party, and Tehran launched missiles and drones overnight at a U.S. ‌base in ...

The driving skills test, introduced in May 2022, currently checks five maneuvers such as coming to a complete stop and turning right or left. But even after the system was launched, accidents ...

Junior members of a nonpartisan parliamentary group promoting Japan-China friendship are arranging to visit China this month, the group's chair said Thursday, as bilateral relations remain strained ...

Ontario Premier Doug Ford, right, and Niagara West Member of Provincial Parliament Sam Oosterhoff unveil a sign for Lake Ontario at the Fifty Point Conservation Area in Grimsby, Ontario, Canada, on ...

Grammy Award-winning American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson died on Wednesday in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, her manager said. She was 70. "Cassandra Wilson transitioned peacefully at home, ...

Yosuke Nagai was an idealistic teenager who wanted to help war-torn Somalia. He now runs the only foreign-funded reintegration program for Islamist fighters still operating in the country. Nagai was ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told senior members of the Self-Defense Forces on Wednesday that Japan needs to speed up the use of artificial intelligence and unmanned defense assets ahead of the ...