Rice prices doubled last month in Japan as core inflation accelerated, official data showed Friday, posing a threat to Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ahead of July elections. The vote for parliament's ...

An appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to keep control of National Guard troops he deployed to Los Angeles following protests over immigration raids. The decision halts a ruling ...

Climate change has tripled the frequency of atmospheric wave events linked to extreme summer weather in the last 75 years and that may explain why long-range computer forecasts keep underestimating ...

For ages, the debate has raged on whether a tomato is a fruit or a vegetable. In the U.S., the Supreme Court ruled in Nix v. Hedden that a tomato is a vegetable because it is eaten as a part of meals.

For centuries, people in other countries saw the United States as place of welcome and opportunity. Now, President Donald Trump’s drive for mass deportations of migrants is riling the streets of Los ...

Police in Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture, have arrested a 54-year-old man who works at a nursing home on suspicion of sexually assaulting two women in their 80s with dementia who are residents at ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin made the following comments to senior news agency editors on the conflict between Iran and Israel, NATO and the war in Ukraine. The remarks were translated from ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said his country has not reached a comprehensive tariff agreement with the United States as some disagreements persist between the two nations. Ishiba, talking ...

Japan logged a 637.61 billion yen ($4.38 billion) trade deficit in May, with auto-related shipments to the United States plunging, possibly affected by higher tariffs imposed by President Donald Trump ...

The Bank of Japan kept interest rates unchanged Tuesday and said it would taper its purchase of government bonds at a slower pace amid concerns about the effect of trade uncertainty on the world's ...

A Defense Ministry panel is set to propose that the government consider raising defense spending beyond the current goal of 2 percent of gross domestic product, sources close to the matter said. In a ...

Members of a family who run a formerly Michelin-starred restaurant in western Japan were arrested Monday for ignoring an order to temporarily shut it down after a spate of food poisoning cases, ...