Japan's Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has chatted with Myaku-Myaku, the official character of the 2025 World Expo in Osaka, ...

The US administration's tariff policy has been the talk of the world. It was also on the minds of many attending a Japanese ...

US and Russian officials have met in Turkey to discuss ways of normalizing the operations of their countries' embassies.

A lake in northeastern Japan's Aomori Prefecture has begun its freshwater-clam harvesting season. About 150 boats left the ...

US President Donald Trump has again expressed his opposition to Japanese company Nippon Steel's bid to make US Steel a ...

Delegates at an international conference on demining have heard concerns that the momentum for tackling landmines may be ...

US officials have issued a clarification about their trade dispute with China. After saying on Wednesday that they have ...

The United States has been stepping up pressure on Iran ahead of upcoming talks on its nuclear program on Saturday in Oman.

A group of about 1,000 reservists with the Israeli Air Force are urging the government of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ...

We focus on a Russian language interpreter whose career has followed the ups and downs in relations between Tokyo and Moscow ...

China's currency briefly slumped to a 17-year low Thursday on signs Beijing would allow a weaker yuan to counter sweeping US ...

Farmers have begun harvesting the first green tea leaves of the year in the central Japanese prefecture of Shizuoka.