Discontent is growing in the Tokyo metropolitan area due to proposals to construct giant data centers in residential areas, with industry groups working to smooth relations between locals concerned ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc, whose nuclear reactors have remained offline since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, plans to revise its strategy for restarting reactors in central Japan, ...

Japan lags many other countries in addressing gender inequality, particularly in raising the share of women in leadership positions, according to a government report released Tuesday. A task force led ...

Nintendo said Wednesday it had sold a record 3.5 million Switch 2 units worldwide in the first four days after the console was launched. "This is the highest global sales level for any Nintendo ...

Although traffic lights (信号機, **shingoki) *in Japan usually follow the worldwide convention of red, yellow and green, learners of the Japanese language will know that the locals actually say the color ...

A child victim of forced sterilization under Japan's now-defunct eugenics protection law said the surgery ruined his life, as he described his experiences at a U.N. event on disability rights Tuesday ...

Mayor Karen Bass issued a curfew for downtown Los Angeles on Tuesday “to stop the vandalism, to stop the looting.” She said in a news conference that she had declared a local emergency and that the ...

Austrian authorities were searching on Wednesday for answers to why a 21-year-old gunman shot 10 people in a rampage at his former high school before killing himself, one of the worst outbreaks of ...

Chinese tech giant Huawei's chips still "lag behind the United States by one generation", state media quoted its founder and CEO Ren Zhengfei as saying in a rare interview on Tuesday. Washington last ...

The Kumamoto City Animal Protection Center announced on Tuesday that about 150 dead cats were found at the home of a woman who belongs to an animal protection group, and that the woman has been ...

Greta Thunberg must fully publicly acknowledge the 7th October crimes against humanity, Also the 236-page report, presented by Humam rights watch particularly quote, the several dozen cases of serious ...

It’s one of crypto’s hottest trends: publicly traded companies buying bitcoin and then buying even more. President Donald Trump’s media company just announced a plan to raise $2.5 billion to buy ...