Hong Kong protest leaders announced plans for another mass rally on Sunday, escalating their campaign against a China extradition bill a day after police cleared them from the streets using volleys of tear gas and rubber bullets. The move sets up a fresh confrontation with ...

Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Thursday to show support for those in Hong Kong speaking out against a controversial extradition bill that has sparked street protests that have turned violent. The ...

Touching on the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi in February, Hagerty argued it was “not a failure, as some have portrayed it.”

The incident unfolded during Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's visit to Iran for talks with the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani.

The measure would level the playing field for American farmers, who have become less competitive in the Japanese market than their Australian and Canadian counterparts.

One of the toughest problems retirees face is making sure their money lasts as long as they do. From the U.S. to Europe, Japan and Australia, retirement account balances aren't increasing fast enough to cover rising life expectancy, the World Economic Forum warns in a ...

Hong Kong authorities have shut government offices in the financial district for the rest of the week after a day of violence over an extradition bill that would allow people to be sent to mainland China for trial. On Thursday a few hundred protesters milled ...

Japan Display Inc., a supplier to Apple Inc., said Wednesday its CEO will quit in September to take responsibility for years of net losses as it unveiled additional restructuring measures and raised the number of domestic job cuts to 1,200. The latest reduction, up from ...

Hong Kong is facing growing international pressure over its controversial extradition bill, with the European Union becoming the latest to add its voice to the chorus of criticism over the bill. The EU "shares many of the concerns raised by citizens of Hong Kong regarding ...

Archaeologists have unearthed the earliest direct evidence of people smoking marijuana from a 2,500-year-old graveyard in western China. In a complex of lofty tombs in the Pamir Mountains — a region near the borders of modern China, Pakistan and Tajikistan — excavators found 10 wooden ...

Traffic jams and tourists' manners are recognized by many of Japan's tourist destinations as major issues that need to be addressed amid the sharp increase in foreign visitors in recent years, a government survey showed Wednesday. The Japan Tourism Agency survey, conducted in October and ...

Earlier in the day, Foreign Minister Taro Kono and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, held talks in the Iranian capital.

Japan leads the world in offering paid leave for fathers, but few take advantage of it, according to a new report by UNICEF based on legal entitlements from 2016. The report — called "Are the world's richest countries family-friendly?" — looks at the globe's most ...

The Saudi-led military coalition vowed to respond firmly to a missile attack by Yemeni Houthi forces on a civilian airport in southern Saudi Arabia on Wednesday that wounded 26 people. The Western-backed, Sunni Muslim alliance that has been battling the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen ...

Are Japan's politicians are up to the test if the Senkaku Islands were seized?

A balance must be struck between reducing use of fossil fuels and maintaining a level of economic growth that can eradicate poverty and hunger.

A spate of selfie-taking tourists at Chernobyl — one wearing little more than her underwear — in the wake of a hit TV series on the world's worst nuclear disaster has sparked anger, with the show's author urging more respect for the dead. The nuclear ...

A change in address altered the way Nobuyuki Sakuma approaches his songs. "I think of the music I used to make in Tokyo as a fantasy. It was completely inspired by my own image, what I thought up. It didn't have much to do ...

Like it or not, Hollywood's "Akira" is finally happening. The live-action adaptation of Katsuhiro Otomo's legendary manga and anime had been in development limbo since the rights were picked up by Warner Bros. in 2002. Now, after years of speculation, it's been given the release ...

A former Stanford University sailing coach avoided prison on Wednesday in the first sentencing to result from the U.S. college admissions scandal after admitting he took bribes to help children of wealthy parents gain admission to the school. John Vandemoer, 41, was sentenced by U.S. ...

Kotaro Otake pitched eight scoreless innings and Yurisbel Gracial's seventh-inning home run lifted the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks to a 3-0 win over the Hanshin Tigers in interleague play on Thursday. Otake (4-2) limited the Tigers to two hits and a walk, while striking out four ...

As Tokyo prepares to host the inaugural Olympic 3x3 basketball, freestyle BMX and skateboarding events, youth-focused "street sports" are breaking new ground in Japan, providing unexpected benefits and opportunities in some unlikely places. While the X Games and the French Festival International des Sports Extremes ...

In a major move that could shake up the balance of power in the B. League's Central Division, the SeaHorses Mikawa announced the acquisition of star center Davante Gardner on Thursday. Gardner spent the past three seasons with the Niigata Albirex BB, helping the club ...

On a night when the Milwaukee Brewers struck out again and again, piling up a season-high 24 strikeouts against the Houston Astros, one big swing by Mike Moustakas made all those whiffs way easier to swallow. Moustakas hit a two-run homer during Milwaukee's three-run 14th ...

Brooks Koepka launches his bid for an historic U.S. Open treble on Thursday at Pebble Beach, where Tiger Woods once separated himself from all rivals and now returns chasing a 16th major. Pebble Beach, where Woods won the first of his three U.S. Opens in ...

Four-time Tour de France champion Chris Froome will miss this year's race after a "bad crash" in training on Wednesday. Team INEOS leader Dave Brailsford said Froome sustained a suspected fractured femur in a 60 kph crash. The British rider was being airlifted to a hospital, ...

Australia batsman David Warner was a happy man after returning to something like his best form with a century to lead his team to victory over Pakistan at the Cricket World Cup on Wednesday. Warner, recently back on the side after serving a 12-month suspension ...

Former Boston Red Sox star David Ortiz remained in the intensive care unit at Massachusetts General Hospital on Wednesday as he continues to recover from surgery to repair gunshot wounds, the result of what authorities say was an orchestrated plot to kill him. "Yesterday and ...