This story has been updated with a clarification from Shytoshi Kusama. Shytoshi Kusama, the mysterious lead developer and ...

Japan’s scandal-tainted ruling party is losing credibility with the public. The new PM is hoping a quick election will catch ...

Japan's machine tool orders decreased for the second straight month in September amid weaker foreign and domestic demand, preliminary ...

New Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba dissolved the lower house of parliament Wednesday to set up an Oct. 27 snap ...

Japanese prosecutors say they will not appeal the acquittal of the world’s longest-serving death-row inmate in a retrial last month, bringing closure to the 1966 murder case after more than a ...

It provides clients such as Target, Ulta Beauty and Hilton with digital tools their non-salaried employees can use to swap shifts, complete trainings and get early access to wages. CEO & co-founder ...

Japan is accustomed to the constant threat of natural disasters, but when a government advisory over the possibility of a megaquake originating in the Nankai Trough was issued in early August, the ...

US tech giant Meta has unveiled a new artificial intelligence tool that can create videos up to 16 seconds based on text and photo inputs. The company announced the generative AI model ...

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Shohei Ohtani and Yoshinobu Yamamoto have been friends going back to their days playing in Japan’s top baseball league. Now, they’re making their Major League Baseball ...

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) headed for a surprise election victory in Haryana state on Tuesday, reinforcing its popularity in the northern heartland a few ...

A man wearing a headband and round “milk bottle” spectacles hummed Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 as he carved a woodblock at an ... insights into contemporary Japan and its culture.

Postwar Japan has seen four cases where a death-row ... A: The death penalty system is, in fact, a viable tool of government for those in power. Executions are convenient, because they can make ...