President Donald Trump's military intervention in Venezuela will pose a fresh test of his ability to hold together a restive ...

Foreign residents made up 9.5 percent of the people in their 20s in Japan in 2025, more than double the 4.1 percent in 2015, ...

LONDON (Kyodo) -- Masuji Ibuse, the Japanese author of "Black Rain," a novel about lives affected by the Hiroshima atomic ...

Mid-career employment changes in Japan are expected to reach a record high in 2026, according to a report by job change ...

Tokyo stocks opened sharply higher Monday, the first trading day of 2026, with the benchmark Nikkei surging over 2 percent, ...

North Korea test-fired hypersonic missiles on Sunday, hitting targets 1,000 kilometers away off its eastern coast, according ...

Myanmar's ruling military said Sunday it has granted amnesty to 6,186 prisoners, including 52 foreign nationals, to mark the ...

Private nursing homes within Japan's capital often have a move-in cost of more than 10 million yen (about $64,140), a recent ...

The shape of families has changed over time -- from multiple generations living under one roof to nuclear families, ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Sunday that Japan will make diplomatic efforts toward restoring democracy to Venezuela and ...

Hours after an audacious military operation that plucked leader Nicolas Maduro from power and removed him from the country, ...

A wild mushroom found growing within the grounds of a forestry technology center in this southwest Japan town in July has ...