The last of the major "COVID zero" holdouts, China is becoming ever more isolated, and its unpredictable curbs are beginning to disrupt the world’s second-largest economy.

Victims included people who had flocked to collect fuel leaking from the ruptured vehicle.

The daily caseload on Saturday was up by six cases from a week earlier but below 30 for the 10th straight day.

People began to fall unconscious, and the mayhem escalated until 9:38 p.m. when a "mass casualty incident" was triggered.

Once a champion of a "COVID-zero" strategy to manage the pandemic, the country of 25 million has moved toward living with the virus through extensive vaccinations.

In February, Honda began testing the service in India and will establish a local subsidiary by the end of this year to operate the new business.

Independent Lower House lawmaker Goshi Hosono — who had long hoped to join the ruling Liberal Democratic Party — was accepted for membership in the LDP on Friday.

The Harvard-educated Hayashi — who speaks fluent English — is a senior member of Kishida’s LDP faction and has served a stint as defense chief.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Hirokazu Matsuno made the remarks at a meeting in the prefecture with local officials, including Nago Mayor Taketoyo Toguchi.

The announcement came after rival Toyota upgraded its forecast despite the shortage of semiconductors, which are essential to modern cars.

Democrats rescued President Joe Biden's faltering domestic agenda Friday, passing a giant infrastructure package that is one of the pillars of his $3 trillion economic vision.

China said last year it was compiling a global watch list of Taiwanese independence backers it plans to punish.

The world needs an easy-to-take COVID-19 treatment. Pfizer Inc.’s and Merck & Co. Inc.’s new pills may be just that. But questions remain about their safety and how well they will work.

The survey underscores the wider crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong, which enshrines freedom of speech in its mini constitution, the Basic Law.

Last month, several thousand Hong Kong university students, some of them under the watch of a closed-circuit TV camera, were the first to take compulsory courses on the territory’s national security law. The content of the courses set out the dangers of breaking the law, ...

Zimov wants to slow the thaw in one area of Yakutia by populating a nature reserve called the Pleistocene Park with large herbivores including bison, horses and camels.

The world's biggest rainforest is now emitting more carbon than it absorbs.

Of a potential fleet of 3,000 or more F-35s for the U.S. and international customers, 720 already have been delivered. Those may need to be retrofitted based on findings from the tests.

The young Swedish campaigner branded the U.N.'s COP26 summit a "failure" after a week of negotiations produced what some experts have called vague promises to cut emissions.

A U.S. government official familiar with the situation said the case had been flagged for all the agencies involved, including the U.S. bases and overseas locations.

A Chinese spy was convicted of economic espionage in an alleged state-backed effort to steal technology from U.S. and French aerospace firms, the Justice Department said.

A new documentary film titled “Fanatic” explores the world of K-pop fandom. Can it also teach us something about the fans of J-pop stars?

A top Taiwan security official has told lawmakers that China had internally debated whether to attack Taiwan's Pratas Islands but will not do so before 2024.

A panel of four men at the tops of their fields discusses what it means to be a leader and comes to the conclusion that Japan doesn’t necessarily breed them.

Some China climate watchers suggested that the nation’s leaders are more concerned with implementing measures at home than winning praise at COP26.

The cash handout program could be included in a fresh economic stimulus worth "tens of trillions of yen" that Prime Minister Fumio Kishida plans to craft by mid-November.

Nothing beats fresh pasta. That said, not all pasta fresca is created equal. Those hankering for a truly top-notch plate should head to Pastificio Sugino.

The first woman to establish a domaine in Japan, vintner Mie Ikeno cut her teeth in France before returning to carve out her own niche (and producing some highly sought-after wines).

In the afterglow of Netflix’s “Squid Game,” Apple TV+ premieres its first Korean-language series, a mind-melding sci-fi mystery.

A pleasing cast and the director Chloe Zhao, who won a best picture Oscar for 'Nomadland,' give Marvel’s latest a steady heartbeat.

A pair of big hits helped the Marines rally past the Eagles on the first day of the postseason in NPB.

"Only five male fighters in the history of boxing have accomplished becoming undisputed champion," Alvarez said. "I want to be the sixth."

Make no bones about it, this is not a sport for the faint of heart, and skeleton requires more than the bravery and willingness to throw oneself at breakneck speeds down a hill.

The four-time Grand Slam champion from Japan tweeted two photos with her holding a racquet on a court, one of them showing her wearing workout apparel.

Seon Okazawa and Tomoya Tsuboi became Japan's first boxing world champions on Friday after they respectively won the men's welterweight and bantamweight titles in Belgrade. Tokyo Olympian Okazawa, 25, was on the back foot during his final against Omari Jones but landed right jabs and ...

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama stumbled to a seventh-place start after the short skate at the ISU Grand Prix Gran Premio d'Italia on Friday in the men's program, while Satoko Miyahara was fourth in the women's event. Kagiyama, the runner-up at the world championships last season, made ...