Japanese police suspect a group is selling fake Taiwanese driver's licenses to help Chinese tourists take advantage of an easier process to obtain documents for driving cars in Japan. The police ...

Learn how to buy a home in Japan, including market trends, property buying procedures, financing, and currently available properties. The webinar will be held on October 4, 2025, from 11AM to Noon ...

Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell on Tuesday signaled a cautious approach to future interest rate cuts, in sharp contrast with other Fed officials this week who have called for a more urgent ...

Police in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, are questioning a man in his 80s after three elementary school students playing in a park were beaten by a man with a wooden stick on Monday. According to ...

The Gates Foundation will give $912 million to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, philanthropist Bill Gates announced on Monday as he urged governments to reverse global health ...

As the Gaza war rages on, France recognized Palestinian statehood on Monday at the start of a high-profile meeting at the United Nations aimed at galvanizing support for a two-state solution to the ...

This year has seen 69 bear attacks across Japan, nearing the 2023 all-time high of 71. Five people also tragically lost their lives in encounters with bears that are increasingly encroaching on rural ...

North Korean laborers dispatched to Russia's Far East for temporary work have enlisted with the Russian military, with hundreds deployed to the country's western Kursk region since around July, an ...

At least 10 of the 16 people who died as the result of torrential rain in central Japan last September were believed to have been caught up in flooding or landslides before the weather agency raised ...

It was 3:30 a.m. when 10 U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers gathered in a parking lot in the Chicago suburbs for a briefing about a suspect they were hoping to arrest. They went over a ...

Former internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi on Friday announced her candidacy for the Oct. 4 presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, aiming to become Japan's first female ...

Inflation in Japan slowed to 2.7 percent in August due partly to government energy subsidies, official data showed Friday, with the cost of rice easing following a huge price spike. Inflation ...