Under rainy skies, many participants were seen wearing headbands with the message "Okinawa without bases," a dream shared by residents when the prefecture was returned to Japan.

The expected agreement between Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and U.S. President Joe Biden will aim for a framework ensuring availability of domestic semiconductor stocks in emergencies.

Kishida said the fire-hit castle "is what people in Okinawa rely on for their identity and pride, and also a historic cultural asset for the country."

After decades of struggle, the U.S. clean-energy business is booming. But that progress could be derailed without a massive overhaul of America’s antiquated electric infrastructure.

On border control measures against the virus, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida also offered more details of the government's preparations for potentially loosening its tough regulations.

Moscow's Feb. 24 invasion has swung political and public opinion in Finland and Sweden in favor of NATO membership as a deterrent against Russian aggression.

Global buyers had been banking on supplies from the world's second-biggest wheat producer amid the war in Ukraine.

Fewer women are having children and those who do are in no rush, with the sky-high costs of housing and education making financial security a must.

As a result, the total amount of new Japanese government bonds issued for the current fiscal year through next March will reach around ¥39.6 trillion.

As Western nations place sanctions on people close to the Russian leader, including family members, the strict secrecy surrounding his private life is being punctured.

The bodies of the Russian soldiers were brought to a rail yard and stacked with hundreds of others in a refrigerated train, waiting for the time they can sent back to their families.

State media said 174,440 new fever cases were discovered on Friday alone and that 21 people had died, as the North moved into a "maximum emergency quarantine system."

A spate of new in-flight connection deals in recent weeks, including the first aircraft contracts signed by SpaceX’s Starlink satellite unit, aim to make high-speed Wi-Fi less glitch-free.

Twitter and Facebook will be compelled to allow the dissemination of Russian propaganda and neo-Nazi screeds under the proposed law, tech groups told the court.

The outline includes a transitional measure to allow porn actors to annul contracts freely for two years after the release of videos in which they appear.

In a joint 28-point "vision statement," the two sides took what analysts called a symbolic step of committing to raise their ties to a "comprehensive strategic partnership."

The Chinese intelligence ship was tracked off Australia's west coast to within 50 nautical miles (93 km) of a sensitive defense facility.

The government submitted the revised bill to the in January, after professional wrestler Hana Kimura, 22, who faced online bullying, took her own life in 2020.

Six of Japan's seven major automakers fared well on their consolidated bottom lines in fiscal 2021, benefiting from the yen's weakening, according to earnings reports.

The violent scenes, which lasted only minutes, added to Palestinian outrage over Shireen Abu Akleh's killing, which has threatened to fuel violence that has surged since March.

Tattoo artists, long treated as criminals for their work, say that it is time to end the stigma against their business.

The PM's personality is now a liability, with public attacks from members of his own party and polls showing his government on track to lose to the Labor Party in the May 21 election.

U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin's first talks with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu since Feb. 18 resolved no immediate issues, the Pentagon said.

Independent researchers have said the number of spam bots could be as much as 15% of users, a discrepancy that could affect the Tesla chief's $44 billion deal for the social media company.

As pandemic precautions appear to ease, retail fashion grapples with a return to business as usual.

Koki Nakano’s latest release, informed by the primordial experience of floating in the womb, is imbued with pianist and composer's inventiveness and classical sensibility.

The sole overnight leader, Bulgarian No. 11 Aoiyama, took his first loss via push out against No. 12 Sadanoumi, leaving the two rank-and-file wrestlers tied atop the leaderboard at 6-1.

The 35-year-old right-hander struck out four and was charged with five runs on nine hits and a walk.

Several times, Rory McIlroy, a four-time major winner who is ranked seventh in the world, has declared the breakaway LIV Golf tour "dead in the water.”

The hope is that by 2031 the Eagles — as the U.S. men's team are known — might be competitive enough to match the achievement of 2019 host Japan, another emerging rugby union nation.

"We have the opportunity to sit back and really watch athletes blossom and kind of nurture them, cheer them on ... see exactly what they can do."