South Korea's national security chief on Sunday accused Japan of deliberately distorting details of their negotiations on maintaining a bilateral intelligence-sharing agreement. At a news conference in Busan, Chung Eui-yong, director of the Blue House National Security Office, expressed "deep regret" over the alleged distortion, ...

Survivors of the 1945 nuclear bomb attack on Hiroshima told Pope Francis on Sunday of the "scene of hell" after the bombing, as the pontiff hit out against the use of the weapons. The pope began his four-day trip to Japan with stops in Nagasaki ...

Former internal affairs ministry bureaucrat Seiji Hamada, a candidate supported by the ruling bloc, on Sunday defeated a rival backed by four opposition parties in the Kochi gubernatorial election to succeed the three-term incumbent. Hamada, 56, beat fellow newcomer Kenji Matsumoto, 35, a Japanese Communist ...

The approval rating for the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe drops to 48.7 percent, down 5.4 percentage points from the previous survey in late October, after he is accused of using publicly funded cherry blossom-viewing parties for election campaigning.

Record numbers of Hong Kong people voted on Sunday in district elections viewed as a barometer of support for Chief Executive Carrie Lam, a turnout apparently triggered by six months of demonstrations for greater democracy. The police presence was thin, and no violence or other ...

Not every advance in electric-vehicle technology takes place inside the sterile calm of a research laboratory. BMW AG, Volkswagen AG's Audi and a Silicon Valley-based battery maker are helping push the boundaries by racing battery-powered cars through Saudi Arabia, New York, London and Seoul at ...

Pope Francis strongly criticizes the concept of nuclear deterrence and warned of arms races while calling on world leaders to instead use money and resources to cope with environmental issues and poverty.

A Utah woman who stripped to her waist while working in her own home is fighting multiple counts of lewdness that could lead to a prison term and placement on a registry for sex offenders. Tilli Buchanan, 27, says she and her husband were doing ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's administration and the ruling coalition are considering providing income tax relief to unmarried single parents who receive child care allowances, sources said Sunday. Currently, parents who became single because of divorce or the death of their spouse are eligible for income ...

Joyous voters in the Pacific island chain of Bougainville cheered and sang as they flocked to the polls Saturday at the start of a long-awaited referendum on independence from Papua New Guinea. In the early morning sun, more than 1,000 people waited eagerly to cast ...

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson was set to unveil his Conservative Party's manifesto Sunday, pledging to move on from Brexit and austerity in a bid to secure a general election victory. Having taken over a minority administration in July and unable to speed his EU ...

While the U.S.-China trade dispute, uncertainties about the global auto market and rising costs for developing cleaner cars are common concerns for automakers, the slowdown in India's market has emerged as a new headache. The slowing Indian economy has taken a heavy toll on Suzuki ...

An art museum in Washington, D.C., opens the first exhibition in over a decade showcasing many of the paintings and sketches from its extensive collection of works by ukiyo-e master Katsushika Hokusai.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Saturday that there have been about 150,000 orders thus far for the electric carmaker's Cybertruck, which was unveiled late on Thursday. "146k Cybertruck orders so far, with 42 percent choosing dual, 41 percent tri & 17 percent single motor," ...

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda's role as the prime focus for efforts to revive the world's third-largest economy is coming to an end. An unprecedented level of concern about damaging side effects of Japan's multidecade experiment with ultralow interest rates has gripped policymakers, regulators ...

Canadian Foreign Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne, who has been in the job for four days, said on Saturday he had pressed his Chinese counterpart about the case of two Canadian citizens jailed in Beijing. China says the two men are being held on state-secrets charges. They ...

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After Tokyo Olympics organizers moved the marathon to Hokkaido, Peter van der Vliet was among those disappointed. As a marathoner, the Dutch ambassador wanted to see the distance runners up close.

A former member of South Korea's top K-pop girl group was found dead Sunday, the country's Yonhap news agency reported citing police. The body of Goo Hara, 28, was discovered at her home in southern Seoul, Yonhap said. Police were not immediately available for comment. Goo, better ...

Twice previously in the last 12 years — in 2007 and 2017 — Urawa Reds took to the Saitama Stadium pitch backed by a screaming wall of red-clad supporters, stood tall against West Asian opposition and ended the night as continental champions. On Sunday they ...

Alvark Tokyo center Alex Kirk was an active defensive presence on Sunday. The 211-cm University of New Mexico alum swatted two shots in the first quarter against the visiting Sunrockers Shibuya, and it was a sign of things to come. Kirk blocked another shot in the ...

Akira Sone became Japan's first judoka for next year's Tokyo Olympics on Sunday. The All Japan Judo Federation named the 19-year-old to next year's team after she won the over-78-kg championship at the Grand Slam Osaka. The federation had announced it would hold a vote ...

Veteran lock Luke Thompson, who helped Japan reach the quarterfinals for the first time at this fall's Rugby World Cup, played his final home match at Hanazono Rugby Stadium on Sunday. The 38-year-old Thompson, who plans to retire at the end of the season, played ...

Third favorite Suave Richard came from behind to win the 39th running of the Japan Cup on Sunday for the horse's second Grade 1 title. Ridden by Oisin Murphy, who was recently crowned British champion jockey, Suave Richard finished the 2,400-meter race at Tokyo Racecourse ...

Yokozuna Hakuho finished his championship run at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday with a victory over ozeki Takakeisho at Fukuoka Kokusai Center. In a bout that was preceded by a long staring contest before the start, Hakuho quickly gained the advantage and forced ...

Sumo is a sport with a surprising amount of interesting characters. For a lifestyle so intrinsically violent and harsh, it attracts a striking number of comedians and practical jokers. Social media feeds of rikishi like Chiyomaru are filled with hilarious antics. Everything from scaring people with ...

Yokohama FC, the club created by fans of former J. League top-flight team Yokohama Flugels, booked a spot in the first division for 2020 with a 2-0 win at home over Ehime FC on Sunday. The win on the final day of the J2 season ...

The NFL has slapped Pittsburgh Steelers quarterback Mason Rudolph with a $50,000 fine as part of the ongoing fallout from the Steelers-Cleveland Browns brawl on Nov. 14. Rudolph, who was one of the central combatants in the fourth-quarter kerfuffle, was one of 33 players from ...

Nao Kodaira won the women's 500-meter race in the speedskating World Cup on Saturday, bouncing back from her third-place finish last week that saw her 23-race winning streak come to an end. Kodaira, the reigning Olympic champion, crossed the line in 37.775 seconds at Arena ...