With the government poised to significantly reduce the subsidies handed out to areas recovering from the catastrophe, will the city of Ishinomaki be able to stand on its own?

Irregularities surface in a campaign to recall Aichi Gov. Hideaki Omura over his role in allowing the contentious exhibition.

The outrage expressed on Twitter has been noticeably worse than normal over the first two months of the year.

The ultimate relaxation, says one magazine, is not idleness but suitable activity — doing what you want, which does take courage.

The meeting, on the second day of the first-ever papal visit to Iraq, marked a landmark moment in modern religious history.

A number of countries are now seeing emissions climb above pre-COVID-19 crisis levels as the global recovery gets underway.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that the number of deaths from overdoses increased by almost 25% between July 2019 and July 2020.

Infectious disease experts are especially concerned about clusters of infections that are difficult to detect.

All Nippon Airways and Japan Airlines have discovered data of around 1 million and 920,000 of their customers, respectively, has been compromised, it was learned Saturday. According to ANA, the data breach is linked to a cyberattack on Swiss air transportation information technology firm Sita. ...

Of Saturday’s new cases in the capital, 68 were from people in their 20s, 44 people were in their 40s and 43 were in their 30s.

China’s first road map to achieving net zero emissions by 2060 may be too slow to stop the world’s biggest polluter from hastening global warming.

For almost a quarter of a century, the city stood as the one place under Beijing’s rule with open elections. Now, China may have been convinced to end the experiment in democracy.

As the pandemic forces institutions around the world to change the way they do things, new endeavors are some of the ways that Buddhist groups in Japan are trying to survive.

"I think it is not easy for the situation to improve to the point that we can welcome them with ease," Tokyo Organising Committee CEO Toshiro Muto said.

China is offering new backing for the development of nuclear power as a key tool in its drive to cut carbon emissions. The nation will promote the construction of coastal nuclear power plants and aims to have 70 gigawatts of generation capacity by 2025 from ...

"The situation is hopeless," said a 42-year-old manager of a franchised pub in Tokyo's bustling Shibuya Ward.

George Floyd's death at the hands of a white police officer last year was a gut punch that sparked sometimes violent nationwide protests over brutality against people of color in America and a national reckoning over race relations. Nine months later, the U.S. has not ...

South Korea is seeking to iron out remaining differences and sign a deal with Washington on sharing costs for stationing 28,500 American troops in the country, its chief envoy has said. Jeong Eun-bo made the comment as he arrived in Washington on Thursday for the ...

It’s become a standard photo op of the pandemic: leaders rolling up their sleeves for COVID-19 shots to trumpet the advent of vaccines. Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu was one of the first, Joe Biden did it on live television, while Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ...

Twitter Inc. is testing an "undo send" function that would give users a short time to withdraw a tweet before it is posted, the company confirmed on Friday. App researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who discovers unannounced social media features by looking at the sites' code, ...

Many wealthy Americans are poised to emerge from the pandemic in better shape than they entered it, widening the gulf between the rich and the poor, a new study suggests. About 40% of upper-income adults in the U.S. said their financial situation improved in the ...

The United States on Friday called China's moves to change the Hong Kong electoral system a direct attack on its autonomy and democratic processes and said Washington was working at "galvanizing collective action" against Chinese rights abuses. Earlier on Friday, Beijing proposed legislation that would ...

China's 2021 defense spending will rise 6.8% from 2020, up slightly from last year's increase and broadly tracking the government's modest growth forecast, as the world's second-largest economy emerges from the repercussions of the coronavirus pandemic. Premier Li Keqiang pledged that efforts to strengthen the ...

The Mars rover Perseverance has successfully conducted its first test drive on the red planet, the U.S. space agency NASA said Friday. The six-wheeled rover traveled about 6.5 meters (21.3 feet) in 33 minutes on Thursday, NASA said. It drove 4 meters forward, turned in place ...

More than 20,000 U.S. organizations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp.'s email software, a person familiar with the U.S. government's response said Friday. The hacking has already reached more places than all of the tainted code ...

The leaders of Japan, the United States, Australia and India plan to hold a teleconference as early as mid-March to discuss ways to counter China's growing influence, Japanese government sources have said. It would be the first summit involving members of the so-called Quad, a ...

Tepco chief says nuclear energy is indispensable for the company to curb CO2 emissions 50% by fiscal 2030 from 2013 levels as boosting capacity of renewables takes time.

A medical worker in her 30s had an anaphylactic reaction after receiving Pfizer Inc.'s vaccine on Friday, the health ministry said.

Medical professionals are holding out for some vaccines over others which are seen to have lower efficacy rates, risking delaying vaccination programs.

Techniques used to help babies snooze may also work on grown-ups.

Taito is back with a collection of Darius' 3D polygon games; Bravely Default starts anew; and Monster Hunter Rise brings a new dimension to the series.

The "Omusubi Unites the World" program lets participants combine local rice with fillings inspired by popular international dishes.

In her book, “Eating Wild Japan,” Winifred Bird traverses the country searching for edible plants and the stories of those who pick them, eat them and live surrounded by them.

At the heart of M.W. Larson’s book of March 11, 2011, and its aftermath are the stories of the individuals who lived through the disaster, bringing to light all that was lost that day.

Filmmaker Ryusuke Hamaguchi was awarded the runner-up grand jury prize on Friday, marking the first time in seven years a Japanese film has taken a prize at the festival.

Michael Parker is seen by many as “the heart” of the Gunma Crane Thunders.

Colin Rea — like more than a dozen other players who joined Japanese clubs in the offseason — is in limbo.

Masato Morishige’s header off a superbly aimed Leandro free kick capped off a nightmare day for Cerezo goalkeeper Kim Jin-hyeon.

The Angels clocked Ohtani's fastball at 100 mph (161 kph) as the Japanese two-way star pitched in a game for the first time since Aug. 2, 2020.

The California Department of Public Health gave baseball teams and fans cause for spring fever Friday when it announced that spectators can return to the state's baseball stadiums in gradually increasing numbers starting on opening day as the coronavirus pandemic subsides. Since the state's five ...

World No. 45 Nishikori, who missed most of the 2020 season following major elbow surgery, blamed a lack of concentration for his loss of two tiebreakers against the 26th-ranked Borna Coric.

Tokyo Olympic team member Uta Abe ended a 13-month layoff by winning the Tashkent Grand Slam's women's 52-kg division championship on Friday. Abe, who last competed in February 2020, won three-straight bouts by ippon starting from the second round, before her opponent in the final, ...