Kansai International Airport celebrated its 30th anniversary on Sept. 4, flying higher than ever, after struggling through a ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency apologized Oct. 16 after issuing an emergency warning for an earthquake that was erroneously estimated as the most powerful in recorded history. “We issued an emergency ...

Hackers breached Booking.com, one of the world’s largest online accommodation reservation sites, by posing as hotel staff to steal credit card information from travelers making bookings. Phishing ...

British oil major BP has indicated it will withdraw from a wind power project planned off the coast of Yamagata Prefecture apparently over concerns about profitability, a source said July 6. The ...

The music publishing branches of Sony Music and Warner Music have sued Anthropic in California federal court for allegedly misusing their copyrighted song compositions to ‌train its Claude AI models.

IMF invites BOJ chief Ueda to speak on Nov. 6 ...

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

Aflac Life Insurance Japan Ltd.’s policyholder portal had been hacked, exposing the personal data of about 4.38 million customers, the company announced on June 30. About 230,000 of the records ...

HITACHIOMIYA, Ibaraki Prefecture—A city here became the fifth municipality and the only one on the main Honshu island to embark on the selection process for hosting a final disposal location for ...

SAPPORO--Actress Sayaka Kanda died after falling from the high-rise hotel here where she was staying. Police have not ruled out suicide or foul play as possible causes of her Dec. 18 death, ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency called for vigilance across the Kanto region as the ninth typhoon of the season looked set to pound the Izu island chain south of Tokyo as early as Aug. 1. It warned of ...

The number of babies born in Japan in 2024 fell to a record low of 686,061, marking the first time the figure has dipped below 700,000 since statistic keeping began in 1899, the health ministry ...