Nissan Motor Co is considering closing two plants in Kanagawa Prefecture as part of its restructuring plans, a company source said Saturday. Japan's third-biggest automaker by volume said earlier this ...

The U.S. Navy said Friday that one of its officers has been indicted on murder and other charges in connection with the death of his American wife, whose body was found at a hotel in Fukuoka in ...

Police in Oita City have arrested a 57-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of abandoning the body of his mother by placing it under the floorboards at their home. According to police, Tadahiro Ono ...

Japan is ready to support the United States' lower-cost lunar missions, its space agency chief said on Friday, after the U.S. administration proposed a $6 billion cut to NASA's budget that could upend ...

Escorts of camels and Arabian horses. A luxury plane offered as a gift. Hundreds of men dancing with drums and scimitars before marble palaces. Extravagant displays of opulence and adulation greeted U ...

Japanese defense officials said Friday they recovered the remains of one of two crew members who were missing since their military training aircraft crashed earlier this week. The air force T-4 ...

Hollywood heavyweights Joaquin Phoenix, Pedro Pascal, Riz Ahmed and Guillermo del Toro have added their names to a letter condemning the film industry's silence on what it called "genocide" in Gaza, ...

The Diet on Friday enacted a law to allow preemptive acts of cyberdefense, giving the government the ability to legally monitor communications data during peacetime and to neutralize hostile servers ...

Being located at the foot of Mount Fuji is a source of pride for the Shizuoka Prefecture town of Fujinomiya and its residents. That proximity to Japan’s tallest and most famous mountain, though, has ...

The United States is on track to lose some $12.5 billion in revenue from foreign tourists this year, a tourism industry group said Thursday, as the Trump administration has led a crackdown in ...

Walmart on Thursday reported another solid quarter but warned of price increases due to President Donald Trump's tariffs on China and other major trading partners. "We will do our best to keep our ...

Russia's Vladimir Putin spurned a challenge to meet face-to-face with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Turkey on Thursday, instead sending a second-tier delegation to planned peace talks, while Ukraine's ...