Los Angeles Dodgers two-way player Ohtani Shohei has been picked for next month's MLB All-Star Game. This will be his fifth ...

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Japan's justice minister says he considered very carefully before issuing the execution order of a death row inmate charged ...

The father of a victim of the 2017 serial murders in Zama City, south of Tokyo, has reacted to Shiraishi Takahiro's execution ...

Tokyo's benchmark stock index climbed above the 40,000 mark for the first time in about five months in Friday morning trading ...

Iran's supreme leader spoke to the public for the first time since a ceasefire between Israel and Iran was announced. He said ...

Top officials at the Pentagon say the US military "obliterated" Iran's nuclear program last weekend. However, multiple media ...

The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank has elected Zou Jiayi, a former Chinese vice finance minister, to be the next ...

A White House spokesperson has suggested that US allies in the Asia-Pacific region should be able to raise their defense spending if NATO member countries can.

International politics expert Fujiwara Kiichi explains how unpredictable US policy and fracturing global consensus could mean ...

The execution of Shiraishi Takahiro, who was 34 years old, was carried out at the Tokyo Detention House. It was the first in Japan since July 2022, and the first under the administration of Prime ...

Japanese officials and atomic bomb survivors have reacted to US President Donald Trump's remarks comparing the US attack on ...