Australia ordered a string of China-linked shareholders to sell their stakes in a rare earths firm on Monday, citing the need to protect the sector from foreign control. Northern Minerals is vying to ...

Police on Sunday arrested a couple in their 20s for allegedly directing four teenagers in a robbery-murder case in Tochigi Prefecture, north of Tokyo. Kaito Takemae, 28, was arrested on the verge of ...

MotoGP riders Álex Márquez and Johann Zarco were taken to hospital after they crashed in separate incidents at the Catalunya Grand Prix on Sunday. Both were conscious after the crashes. Márquez was ...

Aston Villa secured Champions League soccer with a 4-2 win over Liverpool on Friday that leaves the Reds still at risk of missing out on Europe's elite competition next season. Ollie Watkins struck ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a man in his 50s on suspicion of attempted murder after he stabbed a woman in her 20s at a brothel on Sunday. According to police, a call came into 119 at around 7:50 p.m ...

Police in Miyoshi City, Aichi Prefecture, have arrested a 30-year-old woman on suspicion of attempting to kill her six-month-old son by wrapping him in a blanket and leaving him alone at their home.

Seeing Tokyo’s life-size Gundam statue is an amazing experience, but also surreal one. Sure, Japan is the land of anime and all, but even then, a 19.7-meter-tall mecha feels like something too awesome ...

A Japanese pharmaceutical firm has warned doctors against prescribing a drug for rare autoimmune diseases to new patients following the deaths of 20 people who took it. Kissei Pharmaceutical, which ...

The Japanese government is considering a supplementary budget for fiscal 2026 to ease the impact of elevated crude oil prices stemming from the Middle East conflict, government sources said Thursday, ...

A 16-year-old boy was arrested on suspicion of murder while carrying out a robbery on Thursday after an unknown number of intruders entered a home in Tochigi Prefecture, killing a woman, police said.

Restaurant operators in Japan have been forced to review their approach to hiring foreign workers since the government suspended the issuance of special visas needed to work in the sector, as the ...

A Tokyo-based university has opened a laboratory where robots are carrying out medical experiments once handled by human ...