When Tsuneo Watanabe died in December 2024 at the age of 98, it wasn’t just the passing of a powerful media executive — it marked the end of Japan’s old print media empire. In the 1990s, Watanabe, who ...

Home-crowd favorite Carlos Alcaraz withdrew from the Madrid Open on Thursday because of muscle injuries, saying he didn't want to risk making things worse before the French Open. The third-ranked ...

Tokyo resident Satoshi Egura turned 67 this month, and while it’s natural to spend some time on your birthday thinking back on your life so far, Egura most likely looked back even farther than most ...

Police in Osaka have arrested an unemployed 23-year-old woman on suspicion of assault after she cut off her 21-year-old boyfriend’s finger with a hatchet and one of his nipples with scissors.

War, like love, has long inspired artists and musicians. That is especially true of the songs written in response to the Vietnam War during the countercultural movements of the 1960s and ’70s. The ...

Oasis fans wishing to see the reunited British band live in concert have collectively lost more than £2 million ($2.7 million) from UK ticket scams, mostly on Facebook, Lloyds bank said Thursday.

Kashiigu shrine in Fukuoka’s Higashi Ward is a picturesque complex of vermillion and white structures surrounded by lush greenery that lend a feeling of serenity and repose. Last year the shrine ...

Fireworks exploded from the roof. Red smoke filled the air. Family members applauded as players, one by one, lifted the trophy. Yet Liverpool’s Premier League title-winning celebrations in 2020 could ...

Toyota Motor Corp said Thursday its global production for the year ended March fell 2.9 percent from a year earlier to 9.68 million units, marking the first decline in four years, following a ...

U.S. Marine Corps troops, who began relocating from Japan's Okinawa to Guam late last year, will begin occupying barracks at Camp Blaz in June, a spokesperson for the Guam-based facility said, as ...

Mourners stood in line for hours on Thursday to pay their final respects to Pope Francis, whose body is lying in state in St. Peter's Basilica ahead of his funeral on Saturday. Huge queues snaked ...

We all know that the dating scene changes as we age. So, how does finding love at different decades of our lives play out for foreign women in Japan? Dating In Your 20s Dating In Your 30s Dating In ...