The oldest hippopotamus in Japan, a 49-year-old female called Zan, died Nov. 3, Sapporo Maruyama Zoo has announced. Zan ...

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Two French nationals working at Tour d’Argent Tokyo, a French restaurant in Japan’s capital, each received an order of merit ...

Seven junior high school students in the city of Gero, Gifu Prefecture, tried their hand at guiding foreigners in English at ...

More than two decades after spotting a mysterious, gelatinous, bioluminescent creature swimming in the deep sea, California ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average fell on Wednesday as caution set in ahead of U.S. AI darling Nvidia’s results and outlook later ...

President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday formally lowered the threshold for Russia’s use of its nuclear weapons, a move that ...

As tens of thousands crowded the streets in New Zealand’s capital, Wellington, on Tuesday, the throng of people, flags aloft, ...

Shares in Seven & i Holdings jumped more than 9% in early Tokyo trading on Wednesday following a media report that the ...

President Joe Biden made an urgent appeal to fellow world leaders Tuesday to surge money to developing nations to curb ...

Japan racked up a trade deficit in October for a fourth straight month as a weak yen and the rising price of energy kept ...

Customer service using remotely operated avatars is becoming more common in businesses such as convenience stores and online ...