South Korean President Lee Jae Myung and Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi agreed to step up cooperation between the neighbors, whose relations are occasionally strained, as they both face ...

President Donald Trump said on Monday any country that does business with Iran will face a tariff rate of 25% on any trade with the U.S., as ‌Washington weighs a response to the situation in Iran ...

Venus Williams lost 6-4, 6-3 to Tatjana Maria in the first round at the Hobart International on Tuesday, less than a week before her appearance at the Australian Open. The 45-year-old Williams ...

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 32-year-old man in on suspicion of shoplifting premium whiskey. The man is suspected of ...

Earlier this month, the Fukui Prefectural Government Tokyo Office hosted a two-day tour for staff of overseas institutions ...

One of Australia's top writers' festivals was cancelled on Tuesday, after 180 authors boycotted the event and its ‌director resigned saying she could not be party to silencing a Palestinian author and ...

The former mayor of the eastern Japanese city of Maebashi was reelected Monday after she resigned in November over repeated ...

Should foreign tourists pay more for state-funded galleries than locals, or should art be accessible to all, without discrimination? France is hiking prices for non-Europeans at the Louvre this week, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi will host South Korean President Lee Jae Myung in her hometown on Tuesday, in a summit meant to stabilize ties between the two sometime-rivals as Japan's worries ...

Donald Trump promised in his second inaugural address to fairly apply the law, unlike how he said he'd been treated by federal authorities. “The vicious, violent and unfair weaponization of the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is planning to skip the award ceremony for the winning sumo wrestler at the New Year's tournament, as the ring is traditionally off-limits to women, a government ...

The Trump administration secretly reimposed a policy limiting Congress members' access to immigration detention facilities a day after a federal immigration officer fatally shot a woman in Minneapolis ...