Japan

The British government was under growing pressure on Monday to bar U.S. rapper Kanye West from entering the country after he was named as the headline act for…

A revived version of the Japanese entertainment information magazine Pia was released Monday after a 15-year hiatus, containing barcodes for easy purchases of event tickets such as concerts…

Nippon Budokan said Monday it has verified the negatives of 102 unpublished photographs taken during the Beatles' 1966 Japan tour, after commissioning an expert review of long-archived film…

Police in Kushiro, Hokkaido, have arrested a 76-year-old woman and her 47-year-old daughter on suspicion of assaulting a 60-year-old man with a rake and a cane. The incident…

Two junior high school boys were robbed Sunday by a gang of four teenagers at a shopping mall in Nagoya. The incident occurred at around 6 p.m. at…

Southeast Asia's largest low‑cost carrier AirAsia X said Monday it was raising ticket prices and cutting routes to cushion the impact of the war on Iran, but stressed…

U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs sought to hurt Chinese manufacturing, but for one electronics maker, a turbulent 2025 ended with a belief that China is a location that…

The Bank of Japan on Monday maintained its assessments for all of the country's nine regions despite noting that the Middle East conflict and surges in crude oil…

Two U.S lawmakers called for a permanent solution to Cuba’s crises after witnessing the effects of a U.S. energy blockade during an official visit to the island. Democratic…

As Hungary heads towards a pivotal election, voters who came of age under Prime Minister Viktor Orban have emerged as a key group driving support for the opposition,…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said on Monday that he stood by ‌a proposal made to Russia for a ceasefire contingent on Moscow halting all attacks on energy infrastructure.…

The four astronauts of NASA's Artemis II mission reached the furthest point that any human has been from Earth ‌on Monday, cruising along a path in the Moon's…

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Monday he would demand that ‌the journalist who first reported that an airman in Iran had been rescued reveal how they got…

An Israeli airstrike killed at least 10 people and wounded several others outside a school housing displaced Palestinians on ‌Monday, health officials said, in the latest violence overshadowing…

Iran said on Monday it wanted a lasting end to the war with the U.S. and Israel, and pushed back against pressure to reopen the Strait of Hormuz…

The family of a man wrongfully accused in 2020 of unauthorized exports of sensitive equipment filed a damages suit with a Tokyo court on Monday, saying the judges'…

The operator of the Fukushima Daini nuclear power plant being decommissioned said Sunday it halted cooling of a spent fuel pool after receiving an alert about a pump…

Stan Wawrinka bid farewell to the Monte Carlo Masters as the 2014 champion fell 7-5, 7-5 to Sebastian Baez in the first round on Monday. The 41-year-old three-time…

Tadej Pogačar is among the riders being investigated for running a red light at a railway crossing during the Tour de Flanders on Sunday. Pogačar, who won the…

Football at its very best. That was Arne Slot's memory of Liverpool’s richly entertaining meeting with Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League last season. OK, Liverpool ultimately went…