The number of people getting stranded on Mount Fuji while climbing from the Shizuoka Prefecture side fell 44 percent from the previous year, with no deaths reported, after stricter rules were ...

China's trade grew faster than expected last month, official data showed Monday, though fresh fears are rising of a major escalation in the tariff war between Beijing and Washington. The world's ...

Scotland ground out a 2-1 home win over Belarus on Sunday to stay in contention for automatic qualification to the 2026 World Cup, while the Netherlands closed in on securing their berth at the ...

World number 204 Valentin Vacherot on Sunday beat his cousin Arthur Rinderknech to win the Shanghai Masters. Qualifier Vacherot, the lowest-ranked Masters 1000 finalist in history, won 4-6, 6-3, 6-3.

Faced with a swelling mountain of used adult diapers, Japanese manufacturers are finding new ways to recycle them -- transforming waste into resources to curb incineration and carbon emissions. This ...

An increasingly popular approach to modern work-life balance is the “workation,” where professional duties are seamlessly integrated with travel and leisure activities. For the digital nomad and ...

The mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have sent a letter addressed to U.S. President Donald Trump requesting he visit their cities, both of which were devastated by U.S. atomic bombs in 1945, during ...

Dom Dom Hamburger, believed to be Japan's first hamburger chain, recently opened its first overseas outlet in Taipei, signaling ambitions for broader expansion. Sporting its signature crimson elephant ...

Every traveler has a special place that stays fresh in their heart, and for me, that place is Minakami. When I first left home for this secluded and quaint mountain town of Gunma, I didn’t know it ...

Two cousins will meet in the final of the Shanghai Masters after qualifier Valentin Vacherot stunned a hobbled Novak Djokovic and relative Arthur Rinderknech fought back to beat Daniil Medvedev on ...

Japan's biggest opposition party will seek to support a unified candidate with other groups in a bid to block Sanae Takaichi's election as prime minister, media reported after the ruling coalition ...

China said Friday it has lodged a protest over criticism by the new Japanese ruling Liberal Democratic Party chief Sanae Takaichi of Beijing's "repression" of human rights in the Inner Mongolian ...