The wife of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un made her first public appearance in a year, ending an unusual absence that stoked speculation about her condition. Ri Sol Ju joined her husband at a musical performance for the anniversary of the birth of former ...

A U.S. Navy warship sailed by islands claimed by China in the South China Sea on Wednesday in a freedom of navigation operation, marking the latest move by Washington to challenge Beijing's territorial claims in the contested waters. The U.S. Navy's 7th Fleet said destroyer ...

The one-year deal, in which Japan will shoulder about ¥200 billion — roughly in line with the previous year — is widely seen as a temporary measure.

Taro O’Sullivan said the organization hired him with the knowledge that he could speak Japanese at a conversational level but could barely read or write it.

The first shots were given at a state-run hospital in Tokyo, with vaccinations due to take place at 100 medical facilities across Japan by next week.

The remarks could create a political domino effect among other local governors worried about their own ability to respond to increased infections if the Tokyo Games go forward.

A U.S. refinery cleanup of the size and scope of the one in Philadelphia has no known precedent, remediation experts said.

Japan's core private-sector machinery orders rose 5.2% in December from the previous month for the third consecutive monthly increase, as more sectors recovered from the fallout of the coronavirus pandemic, government data showed Wednesday. The orders, which exclude those for ships and from electricity utilities ...

More than two months after the U.K. and the U.S., Japan finally embarked on an unprecedented coronavirus vaccination blitz Wednesday.

For decades almost all the electricity needed to power Africa’s most industrialized economy has been produced by a fleet of aging coal-fired plants.

Vaccinations that kicked off Wednesday in Japan are administered through intramuscular injection, which is widespread in Western countries but not so in Japan.

Even for those Americans who have grown numb after a year of grim statistics, the 500,000-death milestone is a startling reminder of the monumental loss the pandemic is leaving in its trail.

With the index crash in 1990 that followed the deflating of the asset-price bubble, it would take more than three decades for the benchmark to hit a threshold first reached in 1988.

Thousands of people rallied in Yangon, with protesters blockading roads with vehicles to stop security forces from moving around the commercial capital.

The Koo app shot to prominence after the San Francisco company got into a weekslong standoff with the Indian government over blocking certain content.

Presiding Judge Noriko Yokota also rejected a woman's claim that her natural hair color is brown.

Exports in the reporting month rose 6.4% from a year earlier to ¥5.78 trillion, up for the second straight month.

At Miyagi Hospital, the only general hospital in the town of Yamamoto, a wall collapsed in the emergency outpatient division follow Saturday's large earthquake.

Kono has seen his popularity surge even as the government of his boss, Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, has been battered by criticism over the pandemic.

Requiring female observers at meetings to remain quiet has drawn criticism on social media that the party is out of touch.

Among the things that most inflamed scientists was Trump’s rejection of the wide body of research establishing climate change, which he has called a hoax.

As protests against agricultural reforms catch global attention, India's neglected female farmers are seizing the moment to dust off their own long-standing demands — from land rights and farm credit to grains subsidies. Hundreds of miles from the sit-in demonstrations near the capital, Ponnuthai said ...

"Mitch is a dour, sullen, and unsmiling political hack, and if Republican Senators are going to stay with him, they will not win again," Trump said in a statement.

It wasn’t always clear that the administration — many of whose officials worked to foster close, cordial ties with China during the Obama era — would press a tough line.

Some experts maintain that climate change has increased the frequency with which the polar vortex weakens and allow cold to air to run amok.

Huge winter storms have plunged large parts of the central and southern United States into an energy crisis this week as frigid blasts of Arctic weather crippled electric grids and left millions of Americans without power amid dangerously cold temperatures. The grid failures were most ...

It’s been about a year since the early coronavirus alarms were raised, and despite a decline in infections, new fears are rising up. New COVID-19 variants are making pessimists worry that an even bigger next wave may be coming. It’s true that the virus is ...

The U.K. should focus on cooperation with like-minded states like Japan to handle what could be shaping up to be this century’s biggest security challenge — China.

Given the Chinese government’s huge regulatory power, investors are rightly anxious about Alibaba’s prospects.

Perfection is impossible. But there’s a way to do justice to both science and ethics: Focus vaccines on geographic hot spots and the elderly.

Leadership from global players like France and Germany is essential to strengthen the Palestinian negotiating position and push Israel toward a fair peace agreement.

In its battles with India’s government and others around the world, Twitter needn’t surrender its principles too easily.

Considering the weak domestic position of the United States, its demands for human rights could be perceived as self-righteous and end up alienating other countries.

Takuya Misawa’s stylish and enigmatic murder mystery centers on a quartet of friends thrown into disarray after a sudden death in their town.

Part mystery, part courtroom drama, Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s film focuses on repercussions of sexual abuse, while making the subject matter digestible for a mass audience.

Eddie Jones believes England's lack of aggression at the start of its Six Nations title defense may be the result of playing behind closed doors. England began the tournament with a lackluster effort in an 11-6 loss against Scotland, a match that saw England's oldest ...

Skipping the qualifiers — when they resume — altogether is not an option.

Yui Kamiji was unable to defend her Australian Open title Wednesday in the women's wheelchair singles final, losing a three-set thriller against world No. 1 Diede De Groot of the Netherlands 6-3, 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (7-4). Having split the first two sets, the No. 2 ...

The initial clash when two rikishi come together is a moment that has few (if any) parallels in the wider world of sport.

The Red Sox, who are overhauling their roster after finishing last in the AL East in the shortened 2020 season, view Sawamura as a potential key piece of their bullpen.

Karolina Muchova was like a different player following a medical timeout in the second set and rallied to secure a place in her first Grand Slam semifinal.