While awaiting regulatory approval, Takeda plans to start distributing the Moderna vaccine in the first half of this year.

The move is understood to be aimed at easing burdens on hospitals — and wrestling back prominence as a leader, in the public eye, from Tokyo Gov. Yuriko Koike.

The local police found that the mostly skeletal remains discovered Feb. 17 were those of Natsuko Okuyama, based on forensic dental study and DNA analysis.

Sarong-like cloths strung out on lines may seem innocuous, but long-held superstitions around women's clothes appear to have stopped security forces in their tracks as they move to quell an uprising against Myanmar's junta. The country has been in uproar since the military ousted the ...

The government is looking to introduce an option that will allow people to have their salaries transferred to smartphone virtual wallets.

When a mask fits well, 85% of droplets were curbed, with the effects falling to 69% for an ill-fitting mask, the team said.

Sakae Kato stayed behind to look after cats when other residents evacuated, spurred on in part by the shock of finding dead pets in abandoned houses.

The Abe administration had to tackle harmful rumors related to the nuclear accident, which were a stumbling block to reconstruction.

Global warming, low prices and a shortage of manpower are hitting the industry hard.

The operation of all runways and other facilities at the airports was handed to Hokkaido Airports Co., to be run as a single entity, just before COVID-19 landed.

Keita Shimazu killed an officer in a police box in 2018 before using the officer's gun to shoot dead a security guard at a nearby school.

Scientists have spotted a planet orbiting a star relatively near our solar system that may offer a prime opportunity to study the atmosphere of a rocky Earth-like alien world — the type of research that could aid the hunt for extraterrestrial life. The researchers said ...

Premier Li Keqiang pledged to spur domestic consumption and innovation as part of a plan to reduce reliance on overseas markets and technology for long-term development.

Z Holdings plans to merge its PayPay and Line Pay cashless payment services by April next year.

A senior communications ministry official — who played a key role in achieving one of Suga's major political goals — has admitted that he dined with executives of NTT.

Of Friday’s new cases in the capital, 63 were from people in their 20s, 49 people were in their 30s and 44 were in their 50s.

Even so, the Japanese automaker isn't rushing to join a stampede into battery-powered trucks, the executive said, citing low demand.

“Our customers used to be business travelers to Nagoya, but they aren’t coming any more,” said the operator of an underground mall at the city's shinkansen station.

Lee Nak-yon, who served as Moon’s first prime minister until January 2020, has emerged in opinion polls as a top contender to represent Moon’s progressive bloc in elections next year.

More than 5,700 unaccompanied minors were apprehended at the border in January, the highest total for that month in recent years, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The newest climate models can no longer find evidence of a temperature flip in the Atlantic every few decades, suggesting the phenomenon was caused by something else.

A digital rights group said it had found more than 800 pro-military videos that menaced protesters. According to the U.N., 38 protesters were killed on Wednesday alone.

Tsunami alerts were issued in countries as far apart as Peru and Australia after a trio of large quakes struck near New Zealand's remote Kermadec Islands.

Volcanoes in southwestern Iceland have been quiet for 800 years, but the period of rest may soon be over: More than 18,000 earthquakes have shaken the area in just over a week, leading scientists to believe that an eruption could be imminent. Geophysicists and volcanologists ...

The Pew Research survey also found that many in the U.S. back Washington taking a tougher approach to bilateral ties with Beijing.

The global center of chipmaking is facing water restrictions that could impact Taiwan’s most important export.

I saw the events of Jan. 6 as the predictable culmination of a growing disconnect between the U.S. military and civilian society.

The Feb. 25 announcement between India and Pakistan is significant. What adds greater salience is the present context in which the new ceasefire was announced.

As with most disasters, it's better if you do your preparations for some scenarios while things are safer. Of course, that includes knowing the language of emergencies.

The pair's relationship with the centuries-old institution has turned increasingly acrimonious since they stepped back from the royal front line last year.

Temba Bavuma said on Thursday that he accepted the responsibility of being appointed as South Africa's first Black African cricket captain. "I'd be lying if I said it didn't mean anything to me," he said at a press conference after being named South Africa's limited-overs ...

The league has postponed a pair of games after five players and a staffer tested positive for the novel coronavirus.

The review of nearly 800 athletes from among North America's professional leagues who tested positive for the coronavirus found just five cases of inflammatory heart disease.

Fulham manager Scott Parker took aim at the Video Assistant Referee (VAR) system and said it was killing soccer's excitement after his side had a goal disallowed in Thursday's 1-0 home defeat by Tottenham Hotspur. Tottenham took the lead in the 19th minute thanks to ...

Akito Watabe took bronze in the Nordic combined large hill individual Gundersen competition Thursday to reach the podium at a third straight Nordic World Ski Championships. Reigning junior world champion Johannes Lamparter from Austria won the event in Oberstdorf, Germany, ahead of normal hill world ...

A team employee altered a photo of fans attending Tuesday's game at PPG Paints Arena for the first time since the start of the pandemic.

Up to 10,000 spectators will be admitted for games at this month's prestigious spring invitational high school baseball tournament, organizers announced Thursday. A year after it canceled the tournament at iconic Koshien Stadium outside Osaka for the first time, the Japan High School Baseball Federation ...

A total of 2.6 million tickets will be available for the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France and the first phase of the ticket sales will start on March 15, organizers said on Thursday. The France 2023 organizing committee is aiming to make the Sept. ...