Nintendo’s first quarter profit surged 53.5% as the popularity of its recent Super Mario movie worked with solid demand for the Switch 2 gaming console to support the Japanese video-game company’s ...

Claims that the recent magnitude 7.1 earthquake that struck southwestern Japan was manmade have been spreading online, with experts dismissing the theory as unrealistic in technological, financial and ...

About 400 bunches of Shine Muscat grapes — valued at approximately 800,000 yen — were stolen from a farm in Sano City, Tochigi Prefecture, just before they were ready for harvest, on Wednesday. The ...

Japanese apparel group Onward Holdings Co said Wednesday it will require store employees nationwide to carry essential personal items at all times, after three workers died retrieving such items in an ...

An All Nippon Airways flight from Shanghai made an evasive maneuver while approaching Haneda airport around 6 a.m. Tuesday, the company said. ANA Flight 968's collision avoidance system was activated ...

Major Japanese companies agreed to increase monthly wages by more than 5 percent for the third consecutive year in 2026, the country's largest business lobby said Tuesday, reflecting solid corporate ...

The U.S. State Department has notified Congress that it plans to close five foreign missions in a rare downsizing ‌of America's global diplomatic footprint, according to people familiar with the ...

The U.S. dollar weakened sharply Monday against the Japanese yen after U.S. President Donald Trump and Japan’s finance minister confirmed both sides had intervened in markets. Before late last week, ...

President Donald Trump on Sunday confirmed that the United States had intervened jointly with Japan to support the yen, calling the move a "signal of friendship" that would financially benefit the U.S ...

Two women who died in an explosion at an Aeon shopping mall following a powerful earthquake in Kumamoto Prefecture last week were instructed by their employer to return inside to put sales proceeds in ...

Three people were killed and seven more were injured, some critically, in a shooting at an In-N-Out Burger restaurant in southern Idaho on Saturday afternoon, a Twin Falls city spokesman said. Police ...

Two men were injured Saturday in an explosion at an apartment building in Chiba Prefecture with one suffering burns over his entire body, according to the local fire department. The blast, which ...