The Yomiuri Shimbun featured Hiroko Osaki, a tech-savvy elderly woman who lived alone in Nerima Ward, Tokyo. When Osaki died ...

Editorial [posttime] JST, [postdate] Unexpected events keep happening one after another. The world is in the midst of a ...

New Year's Eve celebrations and fireworks around the world rang in 2025, as more than a million revelers crowded into New ...

China and Taiwan have rung in the New Year with light shows in several major cities, hours after similar celebrations in ...

TOKYO/KOBE, Japan -- Nike shoes were once the unquestioned champion of a prominent long-distance relay race held in Japan, ...

As 2024 concluded, New Zealand led the way into 2025 with dazzling celebrations, setting the stage for global festivities, ...

Hong Kong, Taiwan, Malaysia and Japan all saw in the new year, with fireworks celebrations across several cities and prayers ...

If Xi Jinping has plans to tackle China’s problems, now would be a great time to share them, William Pesek writes in a guest ...

Wall Street is pointing toward more gains on the final day of trading in what’s been a banner year for U.S. markets.

Happy New Year from Sydney! Midnight has struck in Sydney alongside most of eastern Australia, marking the start of 2025.

A pick up in U.S. stock-index futures are helping European bourses to finish the year on the front foot, though the improvement in Wall Street sentiment came too late for Asia. Trading is thin, with ...

Japan can now convey its requests to the United States to discuss issues regarding the U.S.'s possible use of nuclear weapons.