Reports say that Masahiro Nakai, a former member of SMAP, paid a woman a lump sum of ¥90 million.

Ryo Yoshizawa — who one fashion magazine said has "national treasure-class handsomeness" — is one of Japan's most popular actors.

Islamist-led rebels declared that they had taken Damascus in a lightning offensive on Sunday, sending President Bashar al-Assad fleeing and ending five decades of Baath rule in Syria.

Deeply divided negotiators failed on Sunday to reach a landmark global treaty to curb plastic pollution, missing a self-imposed deadline, and agreed to extend their talks."If you address plastic pollu...

Shrinking funding and limited support spark fears for the country's scientific prowess moving forward.

'Extremely Inappropriate' uses a time-traveling protagonist to humorously highlight the gap between attitudes of the 1980s and the 2020s.

Negotiators must move "significantly" faster to reach a landmark treaty to curb plastic pollution, the diplomat chairing the talks warned Wednesday, as countries lined up to express frustration about ...

Australian lawmakers moved a step closer to banning under 16s from social media platforms Wednesday, threatening companies that fail to comply with multimillion-dollar fines.Social media firms -- who ...

Passers-by stop and stare at the ramshackle, hand-built concrete tower that looks like it has been lifted right out of a Japanese animation and dropped onto a real-life Tokyo street.

Japanese police arrested a man who reportedly admitted to breaking into more than 1,000 homes in an unconventional way of relieving stress.

Average monthly user numbers for Bluesky on Android in Japan quintupled in the 12 months to October, while figures for X were down over that time.

Amazon Japan's offices were raided by authorities Tuesday over an alleged anti-monopoly law violation, a source said, with the e-commerce giant accused of abusing its industry dominance to drive down ...

TSMC and others hope that support for existing projects and proper wastewater management can avoid undermining water development efforts lauded by the U.N.

BUSAN: A final round of talks on a treaty to end plastic pollution opened on Monday (Nov 25), with deep differences between nations emerging almost immediately. The meeting opened just hours after

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