1. US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for national security advisor says he expects a telephone call betwe […]
1. US President Joe Biden has pledged to do everything at a federal level to help contain the Los Angeles wild […]
1. Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum has suggested that North America, including the United States, could be […]
1. US President-elect Donald Trump says NATO member countries should increase their defense spending to 5 perc […]
1. The historical TV series “Shogun” has triumphed at the 2025 Golden Globes, taking Best Television Series –D […]
1. Japanese golfer Matsuyama Hideki clinched his 11th career PGA Tour victory at the season-opening event on S […]
1. South Korean investigators have halted their attempts to execute a detention warrant for President Yoon Suk […]
1. The death toll from a New Year’s Day vehicle attack in the southern US city of New Orleans has risen to at […]
1. Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru has delivered his New Year’s message in which he vowed to help a dive […]
1. Officials from the United States have joined the investigation into Sunday’s deadly crash of a passenger je […]
1. Former US President Jimmy Carter, a recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, has died at the age of 100. Carter […]
1. Overseas-bound travelers are crowding an international airport in the central Japanese prefecture of Aichi, […]
1. Japan Airlines says its systems have been restored following a glitch caused a cyberattack on Thursday morn […]
1. Japan is set to shoulder over 6.9 percent of the total financial contributions by member countries to suppo […]
1. Japan’s Nippon Steel says a US government panel has decided to let President Joe Biden decide whether it ca […]
1. US President-elect Donald Trump has suggested he could demand the return of the Panama Canal after he takes […]
1. A South Korean joint investigation team including police has issued a summons to impeached President Yoon S […]
1. Police in western Japan have arrested a 43-year-old man in connection with the stabbings of two teenagers a […]
1. Sources say Honda Motor and Nissan Motor are expected to sign a basic merger agreement soon. Japan’s second […]
1. US President-elect Donald Trump has saic that a meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru could ta […]
1. US President Donald Trump has met with Abe Akie, the widow of former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo, at […]
1. US President Joe Biden has pardoned 39 people convicted of non-violent crimes, and commuted the sentences o […]
1. A Japanese court has handed down a not-guilty verdict to a 28-year-old woman who was charged with the murde […]
1. Syria’s newly appointed interim prime minister says he held a Cabinet meeting days after the ouster of Pres […]
1. Delegates of Nihon Hidankyo, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize, have entered their hope of a worl […]
1. US President-elect Donald Trump has suggested that the United States may reduce assistance to Ukraine after […]
1. The leader of South Korea’s ruling People Power Party says President Yoon Suk-yeol should be suspended from […]
1. The fate of South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol hangs in the balance, as lawmakers are poised to vote on a […]
1. Multiple South Korean media outlets have reported that opposition parties have submitted a bill to the Nati […]
1. US President-elect Donald Trump has called for the release of the hostages being held in the Gaza Strip. He […]
1. Princess Aiko, the daughter of Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako, turned 23 on Sunday. The Princ […]
1. Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip continued on Thursday as a ceasefire took effect in Lebanon between Israe […]
1. Japan’s Diet convened for an extraordinary session on Thursday. Key issues for debate are political funds r […]
1. US President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for “border czar” in the coming administration has visited the south […]
1. A funeral and entombment ceremony, called Renso-no-gi, for late Princess Mikasa began at a burial ground in […]
1. A candidate supported by the Conservative Party of Japan, Hirosawa Ichiro, won the mayoral election in the […]
1. Justices on the International Criminal Court in The Hague have issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Min […]
1. When Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party and partner Komeito lost their combined majority in the Lower House o […]
1. Chinese President Xi Jinping has held summits separately with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and French Pres […]
1. Japan and Britain have agreed to launch an economic version of the so-called “two-plus-two” talks, involvin […]
1. Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru is in Brazil to attend a summit of the Group of G20 major economies. […]
1. Japan’s Princess Mikasa, whose given name is Yuriko, passed away at the age of 101. The princess was the wi […]
1. Senior US government officials say President Joe Biden will meet Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday o […]
1. People in China are praying for the souls of dozens of victims killed in a car ramming incident that occurr […]
1. Stocks rose in New York on Monday, with the benchmark Dow Jones Industrial Average closing above 44,000 for […]
1. Japan’s Diet has elected Ishiba Shigeru as the country’s prime minister following a runoff vote in the Lowe […]
1. US President-elect Donald Trump has named his campaign manager Susie Wiles as his White House chief of staf […]
1. Japan’s Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru is looking to strengthen ties with the US after Donald Trump’s victor […]
1. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says he has removed Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, citing a “cris […]
1. Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru told reporters on Tuesday that North Korea fired multiple ballistic […]
1. In the US presidential race, Democratic candidate Kamala Harris and Republican candidate Donald Trump are m […]
1. The operator of the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has released footage that shows a retriev […]
1. In Major League Baseball, the Los Angeles Dodgers have beaten the New York Yankees 7 to 6 in Game 5 to win […]
1. Japan’s ruling parties plan to hold talks with the opposition Democratic Party for the People. It’s part of […]
1. Political parties in Japan are jockeying to form a majority in the Diet following an election that dealt a […]
1. Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru says his party’s coalition will seek to stay in power, despite suffering a cr […]
1. Russian President Vladimir Putin has not denied reports that North Korean troops are in his country. When a […]
1. The BRICS emerging economies have adopted a joint communique that calls for the elimination of unilateral c […]
1. A Japanese high court has ordered a fresh trial for a man who was convicted of killing a junior high school […]
1. Cases of mycoplasma pneumonia in Japan have marked a record high for the third straight week. Mycoplasma pn […]
1. US Vice President and Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris celebrated her 60th birthday on Sunday […]
1. China’s economy grew by 4.6 percent in the July-to-September period from a year earlier, slowing slightly a […]
1. Japanese actor Nishida Toshiyuki, who was known for performing wide-ranging roles in popular film and drama […]
1. Japan’s new defense minister and the United States Forces Japan’s new commander have agreed that the two co […]
1. It is officially election season in Japan. More than a thousand candidates are kicking off their campaigns […]
1. The Chinese military has mobilized to start massive military drills in waters surrounding Taiwan as a warni […]
1. The leaders of Japan and India have agreed that their countries will continue to work closely together for […]
1. South Korean author Han Kang has been named the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize in Literature. It’s the f […]
1. Japan’s Lower House has been dissolved for a general election set for October 27. Official campaigning will […]
1. Japanese prosecutors have informed the families of victims in a 1966 multiple murder cases that they will n […]
1. Taiwanese President Lai Ching-te has said it is “impossible” for the People’s Republic of China to become t […]
1. The new head of NATO, Mark Rutte, has been in his post for less than a week. He has already taken time to v […]
1. US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel has made a courtesy call on new Japanese Prime Minister Ishiba Shigeru, […]
1. US vice presidential candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties faced off at a televised debate in […]
1. Outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio’s Cabinet has resigned ahead of the appointment of a new Cab […]
1. The new leader of Japan’s main ruling Liberal Democratic Party has officially announced his executive lineu […]
1. A Japanese court has acquitted an eighty-eight-year-old man who was convicted of a murder case that took pl […]
1. The United States, Japan, France and other US allies have announced a joint statement calling for a 21-day […]
1. Emergency officials say the death toll from record rainfall in Japan’s Ishikawa Prefecture has risen to nin […]
1. Japan’s main opposition Constitutional Democratic Party has approved a new leadership lineup proposed by it […]
1. Members of Japan’s largest opposition party have chosen Noda Yoshihiko as their new leader. He served as pr […]
1. Japan’s Foreign Minister Kamikawa Yoko has called for a review of safety measures for students commuting to […]
1. East Japan Railway says services on the Tohoku Shinkansen line have resumed after two linked trains became […]
1. Japan’s defense ministry has responded to multiple launches of ballistic missiles from North Korea. The def […]
1. The number of centenarians in Japan has topped 95,000, marking a record high for the 54th consecutive year. […]
1. The Japan-set historical series “Shogun” has won a record number of prizes at the 76th Emmy Awards in the U […]
1. The US ambassador to the United Nations says the United States supports the addition of two African countri […]
1. A senior Russian military officer says his country’s troops have retaken 10 settlements from Ukrainian forc […]
1. US Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump have faced off in a high-stakes televised […]
1. The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has launched a trial to retrieve nuclear fuel deb […]
1. A district court in western Japan has ruled that some of those who were just outside the government-designa […]
1. Rome is considering limiting access to the Trevi Fountain, one of the Italian capital’s most popular touris […]
1. It has been one month since Bangladesh’s prime minister was forced to step down on August 5, following dead […]
1. Nippon Steel has unveiled its plan for the management of structure of US Steel if a planned acquisition goe […]
1. In Major League Baseball, Ohtani Shohei of the Los Angeles Dodgers stole three bases on Monday to reach 46 […]
1. Japan’s youngest mayor has taken office following his win in an election held on Sunday. Twenty-seven-year- […]
1. Tropical Storm Shanshan is moving northeast over southwestern Japan. Weather officials are warning that it […]
1. Severe tropical storm Shanshan is moving northward over Kyushu in southwestern Japan, blanketing the surrou […]
1. Typhoon Shanshan is moving slowly northward off Japan’s southwest. The maximum gust speed is forecast to re […]
1. Residents in southwestern Japan are being urged to stay on high alert for destructive winds and flooding. T […]
1. Japan’s Digital Transformation Minister Kono Taro has announced that he will run in the leadership election […]
1. US Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris has promised to be ‘a president for all Americans,” as she […]
1. Tropical storm Shanshan is expected to come close to Tokyo’s remote Ogasawara Island chain in the western P […]
1. It is the second day of the Democratic National Convention in Chicago. The event opened with a ceremonial r […]
1. US Vice President Kamala Harris called for unity on the opening night of the Democratic National Convention […]
1. China’s coast guard says a Philippine patrol vessel has deliberately collided with a Chinese ship in the di […]
1. Typhoon Ampil, now situated off the Pacific coast of Japan’s main island of Honshu, has developed into a ve […]
1. Typhoon Ampil is continuing to strengthen as it moves north. It is likely to approach the Kanto and Tohoku […]
1. Japanese Prime Minister Kishida Fumio has announced his decision not to run in the ruling Liberal Democrati […]
1. The Olympic flag aboard a passenger airplane from Paris has arrived in Los Angeles, which hosts the next Su […]
1. The Paris Olympics have drawn to a close, marking the handoff to Los Angeles, which will host the next Summ […]
1. Japan is commemorating the 79th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki during World War Two. The cit […]
1. The mayor of Nagasaki says he maintains his decision not to invite the Israeli ambassador to Japan to Frida […]
1. Bangladesh’s presidential office has named Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus as the head of the interim governm […]
1. Tuesday marks 79 years since an atomic bomb dropped by the United States devastated the Japanese city of Hi […]
1.US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has reportedly said that Iran and the Iran-backed Shia Muslim group Hez […]
1. Tokyo’s benchmark Nikkei Stock Average nosedived on Friday with its biggest one-day drop since the “Black M […]
1. Delegates to the US Democratic National Convention are voting online to select Vice President Kamala Harris […]
1. The Bank of Japan has taken a big step to exit its monetary easing measures. The central bank has decided t […]
1. Weather officials are forecasting localized thunderstorms in northern parts of Japan on Tuesday. Previous r […]