Naohide Yamaguchi won his second consecutive Asian Para Games title in the men’s 100-meter breaststroke SB14, an intellectual impairment class, at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Para Games on Wednesday.

A woman was driving a large truck while watching a video on her smartphone and ended up killing six people. With that resulting in a seven-year prison sentence, there is no way that the bereaved ...

A year after taking office, Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told reporters in Tokyo that she’s been working tirelessly to deliver on her campaign promises since assuming her role as head of government, ...

Japan’s Ryutaro Kuno won gold in the men’s 100-meter sprint in the T12 category for runners with visual impairment, setting a new Asian record of 10.85 seconds at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games in ...

Russia agreed Wednesday to resume three-way negotiations next month with Washington and Kyiv aimed at ending the war in Ukraine, a Kremlin official said, potentially setting up the first such talks ...

The US State Department has ordered some diplomats and family members to depart from its missions in Saudi Arabia and plans to withdraw family members from a number of other US missions in the region, ...

Japan won the bronze medal in the women’s team all-around final at the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, on Wednesday, climbing the event’s podium for the first ...

Cybersecurity experts are urging Japanese companies to harness artificial intelligence to identify vulnerabilities in their computer systems, following revelations that AI agents could have bypassed ...

North Korea will place anti-South Korea loudspeakers on standby along the entire border within days and has put unspecified new countermeasures on alert, Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of North ...

A child under the age of 5 has died from influenza encephalopathy, according to the Tokyo metropolitan government.

Typhoon Champi, which has been categorized as large and violent, was moving westward south of Okinawa Prefecture as of Thursday morning, according to the Japan Meteorological Agency.

Developers of the PHP programming language said a set of new updates fixing two previously identified critical vulnerabilities was now live, and acknowledged a delay in addressing a previously ...