A blunder at a Japanese cryptocurrency exchange let investors briefly buy bitcoins for free — though none were able to profit from the mistake. Zaif, a government-registered exchange run by Osaka-based Tech Bureau Corp. said on Tuesday that a system glitch had let seven customers ...

The mayor of a town in northeastern Japan said Wednesday that he has called on the U.S. military to suspend operations by F-16 fighter jets stationed at Misawa Air Base in the region, after one of them dumped fuel tanks in a town lake ...

In a bid to address labor shortages, the government aims to draw up a plan by summer to reform the immigration system to allow in more skilled foreign workers.

Details released Wednesday reveal that the 11 remaining Trans-Pacific Partnership countries have managed to agree on terms close to the agreement’s original form.

A video of a man cutting his semi-automatic weapon in half has gone viral following last week's mass shooting at a Florida high school, prompting a social media movement decrying easy access to high-powered assault weapons. Scott Pappalardo of New York state is the star ...

Pro-government forces pounded the rebel-held district of eastern Ghouta outside the Syrian capital of Damascus on Tuesday, in a surge of violence that a war monitor said had killed at least 250 people since Sunday night. The U.K.-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said it ...

In a tiny, windowless meeting room high above the streets of Tokyo, Haruhiro Nakano starts to cry. The rail-thin, 54-year-old fund manager, who looks like a faded former J-pop star, has just shared his investing pitch, which sounds so deceptively simple you may not ...

U.S. Vice President Mike Pence was prepared to hold a historic meeting with top North Korean officials during his visit to the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics in South Korea earlier this month but was rebuffed by the North at the last minute, U.S. officials said ...

Excessive spending on missile defense could be detrimental to other defense programs, leading to a weakening of the nation's overall defense capabilities.

Beijing is tightening the screws on poliical dissent, and Americans are growing more uneasy about the nature of Chinese influence abroad.

Changes under the U.S. Republican administration are likely to affect the bottom line for individuals and companies here alike.

A selection of letters about recent stories on the Community pages.

Growing up as an ethnic Korean in Japan has given Kunihiko Ryo a unique perspective on the big picture, something that is especially useful in his role as music director for the opening and closing ceremonies at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. A pianist, composer and ...

Marriages in Japan were long between families, with the omiai (arranged marriage) process typically serving to both introduce prospective partners to each other and vet their respective family backgrounds. Have the wrong sort of ancestors? The wedding's off. As seen in Yujiro Harumoto's drama "Going ...

Mari Okada is one of the most prominent — and prolific — writers in anime today. A native of Chichibu, Saitama, she's perhaps best known for penning a pair of deeply personal titles that take place there, "Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day" ...

George Clooney and his wife said on Tuesday they are donating $500,000 to the "March for Our Lives" rally in Washington and will walk with students in support of gun control following last week's shooting at a Florida high school that left 17 dead. "Our ...

Japan's women captured the team pursuit gold medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics, beating the defending champion Netherlands on Wednesday. The world record-holding trio of sisters Miho and Nana Takagi and Ayano Sato defeated the Dutch in the gold medal race, winning in an Olympic-record 2 ...

Japan will take the fight to Germany once again at the Pyeongchang Olympics on Thursday in the Nordic combined team event. Since Akito Watabe succumbed to the Germans in both the normal hill and large hill individual events, coach Keizo Masaki will be counting on ...

For the third time in six Olympic women's hockey tournaments, Finland is the best of the rest. With the United States and Canada maintaining their stranglehold on the sport, the Finns claimed the third spot on the podium — the only one on they realistically ...

Marit Bjoergen made Olympic history and the United States women's cross-country team won its first medal ever — and it was gold. Bjoergen won her 14th medal at the Winter Games by taking bronze with her Norwegian teammates on Wednesday in the team sprint. That ...

Pavel Francouz stopped all five shooters and Petr Koukal scored the shootout winner as the Czech Republic eliminated the United States from the Olympics with a 3-2 victory in the quarterfinals Wednesday. Jan Kovar and Tomas Kundratek scored in regulation for the Czech Republic, which ...

The Japan men's curling team lost 10-4 to South Korea in a preliminary round match on Wednesday, ending its chances of advancing to the playoff stage at the Pyeongchang Olympics. Japan completed the round-robin stage with four wins and five losses. Led by skip Yusuke Morozumi, ...

Alina Zagitova of the Olympic Athletes from Russia smashed the world record to take the lead after the women's short program at Gangneung Ice Arena on Wednesday. Moments after training partner and two-time world champion Evgenia Medvedeva had broken her own world mark, Zagitova took ...

With the gold medal he has been waiting for his entire career at stake, Akito Watabe went all in to win the Nordic combined large hill 10-km final. "I was speaking with (coach Takanori Kono) and we were saying that if we want to win ...

New Yokohama F. Marinos manager Ange Postecoglou has "no regrets" about quitting Australia's national team just months before the World Cup and is looking forward to testing his mettle in the J. League instead. "People in Australia have struggled with it, but it's just the ...

France's Martin Fourcade made history when he won his third gold medal at the Pyeongchang Olympics, and South Korea added another gold to its total after the short-track 3,000-meter relay. But the real highlight of the day was gold-winning dance by Canadian pair Tessa Virtue and Scott Moir ...

Teenagers Hiroaki Kunitake and Yuri Okubo failed to qualify Wednesday for the inaugural snowboarding men's Big Air final of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics. Kunitake, 16, fell on both runs in the second heat of qualifying for Saturday's final. The 17-year-old Okubo's better of the two ...

Repeat men's figure skating Olympic champion Yuzuru Hanyu is "from another planet" and can succeed in his next mission of becoming the first man ever to nail a quadruple axel, according to his Canadian coach Brian Orser. Hanyu said Sunday he has found new motivation ...

Kawasaki Frontale lost 2-1 away to Ulsan Hyundai in their Asian Champions League clash Tuesday night, remaining winless in Group F after two matches. Despite having two-thirds of the possession, the J. League champions were unable to break through Ulsan's defense until the 85th minute, ...