The Family Is Family campaign has enlisted 140 companies so far, up from 40 in February, in response to steps by the prime minister to effectively ban adoption for same-sex partners.

In the previous general election in 2017, the LDP won 284 of the 465 Lower House seats with its coalition partner Komeito taking 29.

Majan Sahidjuan, alias Apo Mike, was severely wounded in a gunbattle with the marines on Saturday night in Languyan town in southern Tawi-Tawi province, and later died.

Plating equipment in one of the buildings housing production lines at the plant caught fire due to a surge in current, burning around 5% of the building's clean room area.

Matashichi Oishi was among the fishermen exposed to nuclear fallout when the United States conducted its largest-ever nuclear weapons test at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1954.

The sound of men punching holes into colorful rubber sheets reverberates across a tiny studio in India's largest slum — an unlikely birthplace for luxury handbags made by a marginalized community seeking to reclaim its identity. Chamar Studio owes its name, derived from the Sanskrit ...

Mixed signals from the games' organizers and a recent sexism scandal have left some would-be helpers lacking motivation.

The health minister also said the government is considering contracting private security companies to monitor those who are self-quarantining to make sure they adhere to the rules.

The resignation of one of India's most prominent intellectuals and a fierce government critic from a top university has sparked student protests and worries about freedom of speech in the world's biggest democracy. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, a respected scholar on political theory and constitutional law, ...

After successfully muzzling Hong Kong's democracy protests and opposition, Beijing's loyalists are now taking aim at the arts as they seek to impose mainland-style orthodoxy on culture and purge the city of dissent. Newly built on Hong Kong's Victoria Harbour, M+ Museum aims to rival ...

While explaining to some 500 graduates his belief that significant hurdles will arise in the next 30 years, Suga renewed his commitment to solidifying the security alliance with the U.S.

The figure was slightly higher than the 239 cases reported a week earlier.

Tokyo faces a dilemma on how to get along with its powerful but crucial neighbor as fears grow of a "new Cold War" between Beijing and the United States.

With Tokyo still seeing a relatively high number of COVID-19 cases, officials are worried that there will be rising criticism against the Olympics if infections spread due to the relay.

There's a reason why the escalating crackdown is largely drawing shrugs from Chinese consumers: it is widely seen as necessary.

Tokyo has been reviewing the feasibility of issuing an SDF dispatch order to protect U.S. warships and military planes in the event of a crisis between China and Taiwan.

As Suga scrambles to contain the coronavirus, he has been treading carefully not to invite more criticism over the government's handling of the pandemic ahead of a fall election.

The average daily sleeping time in 14 countries, including Japan, increased nearly 10 minutes in 2020, a study found, as the virus prevented more people from going out.

A volcano that spewed glowing red lava near Iceland's capital Reykjavik after awakening for the first time in 900 years appeared to be subsiding on Saturday, posing no danger to people, experts said. Streams of red lava bubbled and flowed out of a fissure in ...

A violent crackdown has forced people determined to resist a return to military rule after a decade of tentative steps toward democracy to think up new ways to make their point.

Many of the party's supporters are among the most vaccine-skeptical people in the U.S., which experts see as a dangerous barrier to taming a virus that has killed over 540,000 Americans.

Findings from experts convened by the World Health Organization and the Chinese government are expected to show parallels to the spawning in 2002 of SARS.

Beijing and Washington will set up a joint working group on the issue, in a potentially positive takeaway from the high-level meeting.

The unprecedented ban will make the Tokyo Games the first ever without overseas spectators, with organizers scaling back their ambitions for the pandemic event.

Despite its world-beating exports of coal and liquefied natural gas, Australia is seriously short of oil.

It seems likely that the Japan-Australia relationship will develop into an alliance in substance if not in name.

In modern society, the legal concept of a reasonable expectation of privacy is increasingly meaningless.

China’s new border villages in the Himalayas are the equivalent of its artificially created islands in the South China Sea, whose map Xi’s regime has redrawn without firing a shot.

Were the Tokyo and Seoul two-plus-two meetings successful? For Japan, it was a great beginning and much more successful than expected.

Yokozuna Hakuho has undergone endoscopic surgery for a knee injury that forced him out of the ongoing Spring Grand Sumo Tournament, a source familiar with the matter said Sunday. According to the source, the 36-year-old Mongolia-born grand champion, who won a record-extending 44th top-division title ...

The komusubi used mind games and endurance to tire out sekiwake opponent Terunofuji before forcing him over the straw and improving to 7-1.

British athletes competing at this year's Tokyo Olympics will be able to report concerns of physical or psychological abuse through an independent hotline service, British Olympic Association chief executive Andy Anson said. This move comes after 17 former gymnasts in the United Kingdom last month ...

It was a Faustian bargain that college basketball made last autumn when it plowed ahead with a season into the headwinds of the coronavirus pandemic. There would be games, college sports administrators declared, because there needed to be a path to the NCAA men’s ...

The pitcher, who was targeted by a racial incident during the 2017 World Series, commented on the issue following a rise in violent acts against Asian-Americans.

Thorough countermeasures and restrictions on active support introduced by the country's professional sports leagues have allowed large crowds back into stadiums.

The Atlanta Hawks earned their eighth win in a row, a 99-94 road victory over the Los Angeles Lakers. Atlanta snapped L.A.'s four-game winning streak and kept the longest winning streak currently in the NBA alive in the process. However, the story of the day was ...

Norway's Jarl Magnus Riiber earned his 35th Nordic Combined World Cup win in Germany on Saturday, just managing to hold off Japan's fast-finishing Akito Watabe in a sprint to the line. Riiber started the 10-kilometer cross-country ski leg in Klingenthal, with a six-second advantage over ...

Toyota's strong rebounding game helped the Nagoya-based side overcome six-time reigning champion Eneos on Saturday at Yoyogi National Gymnasium No. 2.

An unstoppable Barcelona won their 20th game out of 20 on Saturday, thrashing Rayo Vallecano 4-0 away from home to continue their record-breaking run in Spanish women's soccer's top flight. Swiss international Ana-Maria Crnogorcevic and Nigeria forward Asisat Oshoala struck in the first half while ...