Asian shares advanced on Wednesday as strong buying of technology shares helped lift some benchmarks, while oil prices surged more than 1% after President Donald Trump ordered a blockade of all ...

Japan has millions of abandoned homes known as akiya. Once lived in by families for generations, many now sit empty in rural towns, suburbs and even major cities. Some sell for extremely low prices.

Police in Osaka have arrested a 21-year-old man on suspicion of attempted murder after he ran a 54-year-old woman on a bicycle off the road with his car. Police said Yuto Yamauchi, a delivery worker, ...

On a sprawling Sino-Japanese war film set in a Shanghai studio, Japanese actor Tenma Shibuya leaned into this reporter and quietly warned, "Don't speak Japanese." Chinese parents and their son, ...

With harrowing expressions of grief and declarations of faith, hundreds of mourners gathered in Sydney on Wednesday to begin funerals for the victims of an antisemitic mass shooting in which gunmen ...

Cambodian authorities have detained 16 Japanese nationals in the Southeast Asian country on suspicion of participating in fraud activities in Japan, an official of the Japanese Embassy in Phnom Penh ...

Dressed in an orange puffer jacket, Japanese scientist Yoshinori Iizuka stepped into a storage freezer to retrieve an ice core he hopes will help experts protect the world's disappearing glaciers. The ...

Under post-ceasefire guarantees provided by the United States and Europe to Ukraine, peacekeepers could in certain circumstances repel Russian forces, German ‌Chancellor Friedrich Merz told ZDF public ...

A private equity firm owned by President Donald Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, is no longer backing Paramount’s hostile acquisition bid for Warner Bros. Discovery, the firm confirmed Tuesday. Days ...

The younger son of Hollywood filmmaker and political activist Rob Reiner was formally charged on Tuesday with first-degree murder in the stabbing deaths of his parents, who were found slain in their ...

China on Tuesday ‌reiterated its demand that Japan retract Prime Minister Sanae ⁠Takaichi's remarks about ‍Taiwan, more than ‍a ‍month after ⁠Takaichi said an attack on ​the democratically governed ...

A woman who allegedly pushed razor blades into loaves of bread at two Biloxi, Mississippi, Walmart stores was arrested on Tuesday. Camille Benson, 33, of Texas, has been charged with attempted mayhem.