OSLO, Norway (AP) -- Opposition activist Maria Corina Machado of Venezuela won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday.

The statement by Sanae Takaichi, the president of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), that she would "abandon the idea of a 'work-life balance'" has caused a stir within the government. The ...

The Japanese ruling party's junior partner in government Komeito plans to terminate their coalition, a senior Komeito official said F ...

The launch of the new Japanese government administration, which the Cabinet of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba had originally expected to take place on ...

WAKAYAMA -- Gordonstoun, a renowned British boarding school and the alma mater of King Charles III and his late father Prince Philip, plans to open a school in this west Japan city in September 2027.

Ishiba said he upholds the views expressed in past Cabinet-approved statements by his predecessors, including the late Shinzo Abe, a conservative hawk who issued the 70th anniversary statement, on the ...

Shimon Sakaguchi, a specially appointed professor at the University of Osaka, was named a co-recipient of this year's Nobel Prize in physiology or med ...

After months of gridlock, President Donald Trump finally landed a long-sought Israel-Hamas ceasefire and hostage deal in Gaza -- an ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un pledged on the eve of the 80th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party of Korea that he will turn ...

Human remains found in a coastal town in Japan's northeast in 2023 have been identified as those of a 6-year-old girl who went missi ...

The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s junior coalition partner Komeito is increasingly likely to leave the ruling party partnership after the ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's likely next Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Thursday criticized China's "repression" in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region during a rally to discuss Beijing's human rights ...