A cat-like robot has been deployed at an unmanned souvenir shop in an airport terminal near Tokyo as part of efforts to ...

A senior executive with a major US investment fund says more Japanese firms are turning to private equity in search of growth ...

A survey found that about 80 percent of whooping cough patients in Japan were infected with an antibiotic-resistant strain of ...

Cameroon's President Paul Biya has won re-election at the age of 92. Opposition supporters who say the election was rigged ...

The UNESCO World Heritage site of Shirakawa-go in central Japan has held a drill to protect its signature traditional ...

The lay judge trial of a man accused of fatally shooting former Prime Minister Abe Shinzo three years ago is set to begin on ...

The top finance officials of Japan and the United States have reaffirmed that the two countries will continue their close ...

A growing number of fires are blamed on lithium-ion batteries, which are used in countless devices that often wind up in the ...

Norwegian sociolinguist Goran Vaage investigates Japanese laughter, or warai. He analyzes how comedy is ingrained into ...

Experts in the United States are closely watching to see if US President Donald Trump and Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi ...

As China dominates the rare earth supply, the US is investing in domestic mines and refiners to cut reliance on its global ...

In 2025, Otani Akira's book "The Night of Baba Yaga" won the UK's prestigious Dagger prize for crime fiction in translation - ...