NEW YORK - The Japanese yen briefly surged to the lower 157 level against the U.S. dollar in New York on Friday, with ...

Japan failed to reach the final of the men's Volleyball Nations League after losing to 2024 Paris Olympic bronze medalist the United States 3-2 on Saturday.

Tran Van Son, a Vietnamese technical intern working at a factory in Kumamoto Prefecture, had recently become a father before ...

Lessons from powerful earthquakes a decade ago helped a British man overcome his initial panic when a magnitude 7.1 quake ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto threw a solid three-run ball over eight innings, but was charged with the loss as the Los Angeles Dodgers fell to the Boston Red Sox 3-2 on Saturday.

A Japanese fireworks manufacturer and a university professor have jointly developed more environmentally friendly fireworks with water-soluble shell casings that naturally dissolve after use, in hopes ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 4.7 hit Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, on Saturday, the weather ...

As Japan's rural communities hollow out and its forests reclaim abandoned farmland, bears have moved in -- and moved closer to people. As a result, a record 238 people were attacked in fiscal 2025, 13 ...

Lawmakers from Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party have launched a group aimed at promoting the rapidly growing trading ...

Japanese companies have been implementing measures to protect workers amid the extreme summer heat, such as introducing ...

KUMAMOTO, Japan - A woman in her 70s, who according to local officials had been sleeping in her car following Tuesday's powerful earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture, southwestern Japan, died of ...

Chicago White Sox rookie Munetaka Murakami hit his 24th home run on Friday as Shohei Ohtani also reached the same number for ...