Penguins in Halloween costumes are delighting visitors at a theme park in the western Japanese city of Matsue in Shimane ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has denied that his country is holding back assistance from Ukraine. This comes after ...

A single bite of anpan, bread filled with sweet bean paste, is sheer joy. Born at the end of the samurai era, it has over 150 ...

A senior official from Japan's Foreign Ministry has traveled to Moscow to press for prompt consular access to, and the immediate release of, a Japanese journalist. Russian authorities detained the man ...

"Time waits for no one, and human lives have their limits. I want to know what happened to my mother. But information is hard ...

South Korea's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday it will withdraw some embassy staff from Ukraine. Seoul has already recalled its ambassador to Kyiv following a dispute over Ukraine's disclosure of the ...

Trade unionists are reacting sharply to an apparent plan by German auto giant Volkswagen to globally freeze salary hikes for its employees until 2030.

The state of Kansas in the Midwestern US has long been a Republican stronghold, but this year's Senate race is proving competitive. Just two weeks ahead of the midterm elections, President Donald ...

A record-breaking "Super El Niño" has begun. We examine the mechanisms driving this climate catalyst and the reality of ...

In historic Kanazawa is Kenrokuen, a celebrated garden whose beauty was refined over generations by one of Japan's wealthiest ...

How can we protect ourselves from "disaster-level heat," especially when compounded with other issues such power outages? We ...

We follow Darshan Khadka, a high-schooler who became a pro boxer in Japan. Struggling with a sense of isolation far from his ...