A 30-meter-high Christmas tree was lit up at Osaka theme park Universal Studios Japan on Tuesday. First appearing in 2004, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rakuten Group Inc. has started an unmanned delivery service in several areas in and around the Harumi district of Tokyo’s ...