Conservative lawmakers decry a change of the surname rule in the Civil Code as an attack on traditional values and tie it to ...

Japan’s work culture is shifting to support female employment and participation in the workforce as the US steps back from ...

That line from Virginia Woolf’s classic Orlando is also the thesis of the latest album by Japanese Breakfast, For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women). Released in March via Dead Oceans, the record ...

This very good boy became a hero after finding a missing 2-year-old who had wandered seven miles from home and had been gone ...

Japan's own 'Baba Vanga' has issued a scary warning about a catastrophic event that could happen in July this year. Baba Vanga, who was a Bulgarian woman named Vangeliya Pandeva Gushterova, was known ...

Dangerous' pair on way to Mount Fuji drank whisky, took dog for walk on snarled-up carriageway following tour bus accident ...

Japan's staple food is in short supply and everything from bad harvests to rising tourist numbers is being blamed ...

He, along with several elite men, paid nearly $600 an hour for sex with Asian women, many of whom are likely to be victims of sex trafficking. Anurag Bajpayee has been named in a high-profile sex ...

In Japan, the Nikkei 225 was up 8.3 per cent in morning trade today while in Seoul the Kospi was up over 5 per cent. In Australia the ASX 200 jumped more than 6 per cent. Shanghai was yet to open.

Japan's Nikkei 225 plummeted more than 1,700 points, or over 5%, on April 9 as the latest set of US tariffs, including a massive 104% levy on Chinese imports, took effect. Rising trade tensions ...

Anthony Matesic works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, Wednesday, April 9, 2025. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) Alex Weitzman works on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange in New ...

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