The yen rallied against the dollar on Thursday on fresh talk of intervention by Japan to boost its currency, while oil prices jumped on new Iran strikes against U.S. targets in the Gulf region. Bond ...

Grammy Award-winning American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson died on Wednesday in her hometown of Jackson, Mississippi, her manager said. She was 70. "Cassandra Wilson transitioned peacefully at home, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Wednesday suggested renaming the Strait of Hormuz as "Trump Strait" despite ongoing clashes with Iran -- then hours later implied he wasn't serious. Trump has made a ...

Junior members of a nonpartisan parliamentary group promoting Japan-China friendship are arranging to visit China this month, the group's chair said Thursday, as bilateral relations remain strained ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi told senior members of the Self-Defense Forces on Wednesday that Japan needs to speed up the use of artificial intelligence and unmanned defense assets ahead of the ...

The driving skills test, introduced in May 2022, currently checks five maneuvers such as coming to a complete stop and turning right or left. But even after the system was launched, accidents ...

Japan’s Kimi Onoda, second from left, Poland's Krzysztof Gawkowski, far left, Britain's Chris McDonald, center, White House science and technology advisor Michael Kratsios, second from right, and ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp unveiled Wednesday a new Pajero, reviving the iconic model line after a seven-year hiatus and relaunching it as the company's flagship sport utility vehicle. The company plans ...

Naomi Osaka channeled Allen Iverson as part of her U.S. Open debut, and the former NBA superstar liked the look. Osaka made her usual fashionable entrance for her match against Anastasia Zakharova on ...

Japan and France will conduct a joint aerial drill later this month, Japan's Air Self-Defense Force said Tuesday, as part of efforts to beef up security ties amid China's military assertiveness in the ...

Yosuke Nagai was an idealistic teenager who wanted to help war-torn Somalia. He now runs the only foreign-funded reintegration program for Islamist fighters still operating in the country. Nagai was ...

Repairs to a section of an expressway in Kumamoto Prefecture damaged by a powerful earthquake in July will take at least two years, the road's operator said. The magnitude-7.1 temblor damaged a joint ...