The boards of education in the rural towns of Kusu and Kokonoe in Oita Prefecture will together launch a program in fiscal ...

In 1675, fishermen from what is now called Shingu, Wakayama Prefecture, taught a village in present-day Miyagi Prefecture a revolutionary technique to catch bonito.

The Public Security Intelligence Agency has officially recognized the second son of Chizuo Matsumoto, former leader of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult, as leader of the group's mainstream ...

Muhammad Yunus, the caretaker government's leader, said the conversion to a museum would 'preserve memories of her misrule ...

The Philippines has heightened defense cooperation with a range of allies over the past year after a series of clashes in the ...

Ong Beng Seng could be sentenced by a Singapore court as soon as Monday or at a later date. He faces up to seven years in ...

South Korea said on Monday it has started removing loudspeakers used to blare K-pop and news reports into the North, as a new ...

Five years since the start of the pandemic, Britain is still dealing with a spike in public debt, 1.2 million extra people on ...

Gangs are battling to control Prato's production of clothes hangers — a market estimated to be worth €100 million ($115 ...

The broader Topix Index and the blue-chip 225-issue Nikkei Stock Average fell at least 2% in early trade, their largest ...

Medium-sized securities firms are raising their starting salaries in line with their bigger domestic competitors Nomura and ...

Former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka roared into the last eight at the WTA Canadian Open on Sunday as Iga Swiatek became the latest ...