A U.S. official said Friday that an Islamic State affiliate in Afghanistan carried out this week’s horrific attack on a maternity hospital in a majority Shiite Muslim neighborhood in Kabul, killing 24 people including newborns and mothers. Peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said the U.S. government ...

Wataru, 17, is soliciting funds online to challenge the ordinance, which limits videogame time to an hour a day on weekdays.

According to the Immigration Services Agency, Japan received 1,256 visitors in April versus 2.68 million or so a year ago.

Banks worldwide are setting aside billions of dollars for defaults for potentially the worst global recession since the Great Depression.

China on Friday urged the United States to meet it halfway and strengthen cooperation in the fight against the coronavirus pandemic after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to sever bilateral ties. Relations between the world's two largest economies have deteriorated in recent weeks, with both ...

Despite regional concerns in Kansai, Osaka, Kyoto and Hyogo are going their own way on reviving their economies amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Anti-base activists cancel their annual protests but vow to continue their battle against the Futenma relocation plan with the central government.

The bill is a target of protests from the opposition and lawyers, who claim it would enable the politicization of an independent judiciary system.

The guidelines offer a glimpse into how firms might survive as their customers adopt what's been dubbed a "new lifestyle."

The city will closely monitor daily cases, untraceable cases and the infection rate from week to week.

The U.S. Senate approved legislation on Thursday calling on President Donald Trump's administration to toughen its response to China's crackdown on its Uighur Muslim minority, the latest push in Washington to punish China as Trump blames Beijing for worsening the coronavirus pandemic. The bipartisan bill, ...

Temperature checks and mandatory virus tests are some of the measures becoming the new normal for migrant workers in Malaysia and Thailand.

A statement released by the Japan Society for Reproductive Medicine is urging doctors to ask patients to reconsider treatment.

China's industrial output rose 3.9 percent in April from a year earlier, data showed Friday, expanding for the first time this year as the world's second-largest economy slowly emerged from its coronavirus lockdown. That was faster than the 1.5 percent increase forecast in a Reuters ...

The science of sewage surveillance could be deployed in countries across the world to help monitor the spread of national epidemics of COVID-19 while reducing the need for mass testing, scientists say. Experts in the field — known as wastewater epidemiology — say that as ...

The quicker tests will be conducted in certain regions rather than nationwide, the health ministry says.

There is "near-consensus" among global central banks that negative rates have huge drawbacks, according to Sayuri Shirai

U.S. health authorities issued an alert Thursday over a rare but sometimes deadly autoimmune condition among children that is believed to be linked to COVID-19. The illness, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention called multisystem inflammatory syndrome in children (MIS-C), was first reported ...

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi lashed out Thursday at Trump administration officials and congressional Republicans seeking to slow work on a fresh round of coronavirus relief. The White House responded minutes later with a threat that U.S. President Donald Trump would veto the $3 trillion ...

Juggling two mortgages and part-time jobs, Saudi academic Abdullah finally came close to building his own home, but the kingdom's coronavirus-triggered austerity drive has dealt a crushing blow to his dreams. Saudi Arabia has announced a tripling of its value added tax from July and ...

As Beijing seeks to control the damage to its global reputation, the government is pushing hard to control the story from Berlin to Bratislava

Majority of residents lack the required individual number cards to apply online, while the government encourages application via mail.

Island's relative success in containing the virus may give it a head start when international travel resumes.

Late last month, the automaker projected posting a group net loss of ¥85 billion to ¥95 billion.

An outbreak at a post office delayed the delivery of 170,000 items of mail after the facility was forced to close in April.

The new technology promises to make data-gathering tasks much faster and more secure.

The changes would raise the retirement age for prosecutors, while allowing those in certain roles to postpone retirement with Cabinet approval.

Global tensions simmered over the race for a coronavirus vaccine Thursday, as the United States and China traded jabs, and France slammed pharmaceuticals giant Sanofi for suggesting the U.S. would get any eventual vaccine first. Scientists are working at breakneck speed to develop a vaccine ...

People face a ¥2,000 fine if they violate a ban on smoking near Nagoya Station.

With many Japanese inns facing threat of closure amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, people are turning to an online project to support them by making payments toward future stays.

Subsidies will be given to assist those who are facing financial difficulties as a result of the coronavirus pandemic.

Like it or not, our world is going to be different moving forward, and some of the biggest changes may be in Japan's entertainment districts.

The actions of the nation's regional leaders during this crisis have been nothing short of extraordinary.

The mental health issue is already poorly understood; now its role in the public imagination is shifting again.

As some of Tokyo's clubs face permanent closure as a result of COVID-19, others look to the future and ways of ensuring they survive the pandemic.

Judoka already named to Japan's 2020 Olympic team will not have to qualify again for the games that have been postponed until 2021, the All Japan Judo Federation decided Friday. The body's development and executive committees, meeting online in an extraordinary session, rejected calls to ...

Chicago Cubs pitcher Yu Darvish on Friday joined a growing chorus of Major League Baseball stars expressing resentment about possibly being asked to work in unsafe conditions while the new coronavirus pandemic rages. "I think it's basically the same as treating MLB players like fighting ...

While the International Olympic Committee said on Thursday it was committing $650 million toward expenditures for the delayed 2020 Tokyo Games, organizers are not ready to say whether the amount would be enough. "In terms of the additional costs (caused by the postponement), it's still ...

Gloucester coach Johan Ackermann is leaving the English Premiership club to join Japan Top League side NTT Docomo Red Hurricanes, it was announced on Friday. The 49-year-old South African has spent three years with Gloucester, taking them to the final of the European Challenge Cup ...

World Rugby has postponed July test matches involving southern and northern hemisphere nations because of ongoing restrictions on international travel during the coronavirus pandemic. The sport’s international governing body issued statement Friday saying the mid-year test window will be rescheduled when cross-border travel and quarantine ...

Professional athletes are showing fans that their skills are — to some extent — transferable to the virtual world.

Renowned economist Katsuhiro Miyamoto predicts that Japan's professional sports leagues could see over $1 billion in losses.

Darius Leonard works relentlessly at his rural South Carolina home to prepare for another football season. He's also wary of pushing too hard, knowing a minor injury could become a major setback given the dearth of medical experts in his area. So when in doubt, ...

World heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua will have only one fight this year but he could take on British compatriot Tyson Fury twice in 2021, his promoter Eddie Hearn said on Thursday. Joshua, the WBA, WBO and IBF champion, is due to fight Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev ...

Despite the state of emergency being lifted in most prefectures, teams in many areas are uncertain of when they will be able to resume training.

Didier Gailhaguet, forced to resign from the French Ice Sports Federation (FFSG) in February because of a sexual assault scandal, is refusing to leave the French Olympic Committee, he said on in an email obtained by AFP on Thursday. "I have decided not to resign ...

The final four men’s basketball spots in the 12-nation field for the Tokyo Olympics will be decided next summer, the sport’s global organizing body said Thursday. It remains unclear, however, if those spots will be earned while an NBA season is happening or if NBA ...

Augsburg coach Heiko Herrlich will miss his team’s first game when the German first division resumes Saturday because he broke quarantine rules to buy toiletries. Herrlich apologized Thursday evening and ruled himself out of the game, his first in charge of the club. Bundesliga rules mandate ...

IOC President Thomas Bach said that his organization would be open to cost-cutting measures, especially in the realm of hospitality.

Baseball. In Japan. At the Olympics. For World Baseball Softball Confederation president Riccardo Fraccari, it seems like such a sure home run that he can’t even imagine why anyone wouldn’t want to be involved. No wonder the refusal of Major League Baseball and its players' association ...