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, ...

The lineup for the final of the Eurovision Song Contest has been decided, with five more countries sent home after the second semifinal on Thursday. Fifteen countries battled for 10 of the 25 spots in ...

Honda announced Thursday its first operational loss since 1957 after a major overhaul of its electric vehicle strategy in the United States. Japan's number two automaker after Toyota said that its ...

China's Xi Jinping told President Donald Trump that trade talks were making progress at the start of a two-day summit on Thursday but warned that disagreement over Taiwan could send relations down a ...

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

Japan's leading potato chip maker Calbee Inc will start selling some of its potato chip products in black-and-white packaging ...

Madonna, Shakira and K-pop band BTS will headline a Super Bowl-style half-time show at the World Cup final on July 19 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey, organizers said Thursday. Coldplay's Chris ...

An outbreak of the deadly hantavirus on a Dutch-flagged cruise ship is reviving conspiracy theories about vaccines, alleged ...

European oil and gas companies who posted huge profits in the first quarter on soaring prices caused by the war in the Middle ...

Japan will provide grant assistance worth 1 billion yen to support the installation of renewable energy equipment, including solar panels, at 10 hospitals in fuel-strapped Cuba, the Foreign Ministry ...

A European investment fund group said Tuesday it will acquire Kakaku.com Inc, the operator of Japan's popular Tabelog restaurant review and online reservation website, launching a takeover bid that is ...

The risk of person-to-person transmission of hantaviruses in Japan would remain low even if infected passengers from a cruise ...