Japan launches ride-hailing services in Tokyo; other areas to follow
Japan on Monday launched ride-hailing services in Tokyo, with other areas across the country to follow suit in a bid to address a nationwide shortage of taxi drivers.…
Japan on Monday launched ride-hailing services in Tokyo, with other areas across the country to follow suit in a bid to address a nationwide shortage of taxi drivers.…
Japan's real wages in February were down 1.3 percent from a year earlier, marking the 23rd consecutive month of decline, as salary increases failed to keep pace with…
A Vietnamese man in his 30s was stabbed to death at a company dormitory in Itami, Hyogo Prefecture, on Sunday and police are questioning a co-worker of the…
Four people were bitten by a runaway dog in Tochigi City on Sunday. A 25-year-old woman walking her dog was the first to be bitten at around 2:10…
Asian shares mostly rose Monday as investors looked ahead to earnings reports from top global companies and a consumer prices report that will be a gauge for U.S.…
South Korea has successfully launched its second military spy satellite into orbit, days after North Korea reaffirmed its plan to launch multiple reconnaissance satellites this year. The Koreas…
Three gulls rest on a railing at Shinobazu Pond in Ueno, Tokyo, on Monday morning.
More than 90 people died when an overcrowded makeshift ferry sank off the north coast of Mozambique, local authorities said on Sunday. The converted fishing boat, carrying about…
The University of Tsukuba is set to open a campus in Kuala Lumpur offering interdisciplinary courses in September, making it the first Japanese university to establish an overseas…
Nearly a third of patients with advanced liver cancer who received a personalized vaccine developed by Geneos Therapeutics along with an immunotherapy drug in a small, early trial…
The death toll from an attack in a village in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo's Ituri province rose to 25 on Sunday, a local chief and civil society…
A man was charged Sunday with setting a fire outside the Vermont office of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, federal prosecutors said. Shant Soghomonian, 35, who was previously of…
Thirty years after genocide tore their tiny nation apart, Rwandans gathered in their capital city on Sunday for a candlelight vigil to remember the dead and hope for…
Nationalist opposition party Law and Justice (PiS) came first in Poland's local government elections, an exit poll showed on Sunday, in a setback for Prime Minister Donald Tusk's…
Israel's military announced Sunday it had withdrawn its forces from the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis, wrapping up a key phase in its ground offensive against the…
Police in Yoshikawa, Saitama Prefecture, have arrested a 43-year-old police officer on suspicion of filming up the skirt of a high school girl. According to police, Keita Nonaka,…
Police in Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, have arrested a 51-year-old man of assault after he beat up a man in his 40s with whom he had been drinking…
Roki Sasaki picked up his first win of the season after striking out nine in seven innings in the Lotte Marines' 5-2 victory over the Orix Buffaloes on…
Players of teams Japan and Hong Kong enter the field during the men Melrose Claymore final at the Hong Kong Sevens rugby tournament in Hong Kong on Sunday.…
Around 80 percent of Japanese companies and entities involved in the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka indicated concerns over a lack of public enthusiasm for the event, with…
More Japanese companies are seeking to export carbon dioxide emissions to Southeast Asian nations and elsewhere for underground storage as a way to tackle climate change, with over…
“Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire” easily swatted away a pair of challengers to hold on to the top spot at the box office for the second week…
Days after U.S. President Joe Biden joined his election rival Donald Trump in voicing concern about a Japanese purchase of U.S. Steel, the manufacturer began touting the benefits of the…
China conducted "combat patrols" Sunday in the South China Sea, its army said, the same day the Philippines, the United States, Japan and Australia held their first joint…