Pickleball, a sport often called a miniature version of tennis, has gained so much in popularity in Japan that the country ...

Sendai residents have bragging rights to living in the most comfortable city in Japan, as government statistics support their ...

BEIJING/SHENZHEN―When Zhu Zhili was looking for a base to set up an artificial intelligence film studio in China two years ago, there was just one clear choice: the southern city of Shenzhen with its ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party will urge the government to institute “administrative wiretapping,” which would allow broad communications surveillance for national security purposes without ...

OSAKA--A major hospital here suspended routine medical services after a ransomware cyberattack shut down the facility’s electronic medical record system, officials said on Oct. 31. Osaka General ...

When tsunami alerts went out across a wide area of Japan on July 30, many foreign tourists were left in the dark to the threat and the recommended course of action due to the language barrier. Eugénie ...

Stanford University slugger Rintaro Sasaki will sign with the Miami Marlins, spurning a far more lucrative contract to play in Japan in favor of pursuing his Major League Baseball dream, sources said ...

In the days surrounding Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s February election win, several dozen X accounts linked to a Chinese misinformation campaign attacked her deeply conservative views and ...

BANGKOK—China and the United States agreed to establish a channel for handling AI-related incidents and accelerate work on military crisis communications following a three-day summit between President ...

The average minimum wage in Japan will climb to 1,177 yen ($8) an hour in fiscal 2026, up 56 yen, or 5.0 percent, and representing the second-highest hike in history. The country’s 47 prefectures, ...

Sony Group Corp. is spinning off its long-struggling television business, once a flagship of its consumer electronics offerings. Its consumer electronics subsidiary Sony Corp. announced on Jan. 20 ...

A joint task force including the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department announced on April 7 the arrest of a Pakistani national on suspicion of violating the Stimulants Control Law by smuggling a ...