A growing number of questions are being raised about the government’s decision not to isolate passengers allowed to leave the Diamond Princess cruise ship and its failure to test some others during the quarantine period.

Finance chiefs from the world's largest economies are realizing the coronavirus isn't just a short-term threat to global growth — it is exposing the vulnerabilities of globalization itself. As finance ministers and central bank governors kicked off their Group of 20 meeting in Riyadh, Saudi ...

The mayor of Christchurch offered a formal apology on Sunday to families, including from Japan, who lost loved ones in the collapse of a six-story building in a 2011 earthquake. Mayor Lianne Dalziel, who took office in 2013, met privately with the families in the ...

Last month, for the first time in 16 years, the Japanese Communist Party met to revise its basic political program. Part of the reason was that the party hopes a change of rhetoric, at least, will make it easier to form an opposition coalition ...

Fewer than 40 percent of Japanese want to watch live Tokyo Olympic or Paralympic events at venues, a recent poll found.

Brazil's famed Carnival kicked off in earnest on Saturday as millions of scantily clad revelers poured into the streets, many of whom took the opportunity to parody or otherwise comment on the nation's deeply polarized political climate. Since right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro took office in ...

The Social Democratic Party elected Mizuho Fukushima as its new leader at a party convention on Saturday, placing her back in the top position after a previous stint from 2003 to 2013. Fukushima's leadership will be tested during her two-year term at a time when ...

China reported another fall in the new coronavirus infections outside of its epicenter on Sunday, but world health officials warned it was too early to make predictions about the outbreak as new infections and fears of contagion increased elsewhere. China's health commission confirmed 648 new ...

The U.S. State Department on Saturday called for "increased caution" when traveling to Japan, escalating the alert to level 2 on the four-level advisory scale amid reports that a new coronavirus originating in China is spreading in Japanese communities via unknown infection routes. The previous ...

In his first birthday address since ascending the chrysanthemum throne, Emperor Naruhito pledged to stand by the people of Japan in responding to intensifying environmental and social challenges ranging from climate change to the novel coronavirus outbreak. "In this rapidly changing society, I am contemplating ...

The electoral odds inside the Democratic Party are aligning in such a manner that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg could end up as the Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency on Nov. 3.

Contrary to claims of anti-American backlash, a study finds that the military is a great brand ambassador.

In an era where everything seems quantifiable, it's unsettling that the information we've got on this deadly outbreak is approximate at best.

Can an event define a city? By all accounts, the Glasgow Garden Festival, held in 1988, was a raging success with over 4 million visitors attending the riverside event. For Conrad Tokyo General Manager Neil McInnes who hails from Glasgow, the festival was a ...

FC Tokyo withstood early pressure from Shimizu S-Pulse in the J. League first division on Sunday as they kicked off their 2020 season with a 3-1 win. The 2019 runners-up struggled to gain traction against S-Pulse, who finished 12th last year, and found themselves 1-0 ...

The Kobe Kobelco Steelers stayed unbeaten in the Japan Rugby Top League thanks to Sunday's comprehensive 57-0 win over Toshiba Brave Lupus. Todd Blackadder's Brave Lupus came into the game at Universiade Memorial Stadium with just one loss. But they were outplayed in all departments ...

Shohei Ono captured gold at the Dusseldorf Grand Slam for the third straight year on Saturday, earning a decisive victory in a bid to defend his Olympic title on home soil this summer. Ono defeated South Korea's An Chang-rim in the men's 73-kg final for ...