The prime minister's attendance at the June 29-30 event is dependent on the domestic political situation leading up to an Upper House election likely to be held July 10.

The central government has called for a revamp of old-fashioned labor practices, taxation and social security systems that have left the nation's gender gap largely intact for years.

Forensic pathologist Raquel Fortun is using her skills to show how other doctors falsely claimed some victims of the country’s drug war had died natural deaths.

Famed ocean adventurer Kenichi Horie's arrival in the Kii Strait capped a two-month trip that started from a yacht harbor in San Francisco in March.

The country's tourism agency will select 10 model sites within fiscal 2022 and help them establish accommodations and develop tourism resources to attract rich visitors.

The commander at the scene arrived without a police radio, and decided in the first minutes on an approach that would delay a confrontation.

Tesla CEO Elon Musk's "super bad feeling" about the economy could signal a looming recession for an industry whose bosses have shown no signs of concern.

The arrests are a stark gauge of how Russia has intensified repression of critics. At least 50 people now face yearslong prison sentences.

In 1989, Chinese troops opening fire to end the student-led protests in and around the square. Chinese authorities ban any public commemoration of the event on the mainland.

The government hopes to adopt the guidelines at a Cabinet meeting Tuesday, but some objections over the phrasing calling for increased defense spending remain.

In updating the strategy to expand infrastructure exports, the government completely removed sentences regarding an eight-point plan for economic cooperation with Moscow.

A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Beijing had formally requested a meeting on the sidelines of the Shangri-La Dialogue Asian security summit.

The U.S. State Department has updated its fact sheet on Taiwan again, to reinstate a line about not supporting formal independence for the Chinese-claimed, democratically governed island.

Myanmar's junta will execute a former lawmaker from Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism.

Navarro was hit with one count involving his refusal to appear for a deposition before the Jan. 6 Select Committee and another for his refusal to produce documents.

The new draft emphasizes the importance of both Europe and Asia to U.S. national security interests, a shift from an earlier version that focused more squarely on China and Asia.

Russia's brutal invasion has ripped apart predictions, reawakened old alliances, tested others and spread death and destruction across Ukraine.

It takes a village to save the dwindling expressions of Japan's quintessential folk architecture.

Video game music takes one more step toward mainstream acceptance as a legitimate art form.

Official Olympics documentaries can be as triumphant as a gold-medal performance or they can end up in infamy.

Readers will get a clear understanding of what colonial administrators were trying to achieve, but are largely left in the dark as to what the local population thought.

Kuriyama established a track record as someone who is unbound by convention during his time as manager of the Fighters.

"Since I was younger, my dad told me I could change the world with my racket. He didn't mean that by like just playing tennis. He meant speaking out on issues like this."

The USGA nearly doubled the purse for the U.S. Women's Open in one fell swoop by adding a new sponsor.