Approval for Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s government rose for the first time this year, a new poll showed ...

Two days of heavy downpours in South Korea have killed at least four people and forced more than 1,300 others to evacuate, officials said Thursday.

The mural in Roubaix is part of an urban street culture festival backed by the town. Roubaix is one of the poorest towns in ...

An experimental AI-guided robot can autonomously perform a delicate, complicated phase of a common gallbladder operation, marking a major step toward automated medical procedures, researchers said on ...

Two Chinese Navy aircraft carriers deployed to the Pacific Ocean around Japan and other areas in June had been conducting ...

A new bell has been installed in Urakami Cathedral’s twin bell towers, with the previous one having been destroyed in the ...

Nissan Motor Co., which has been restructuring its operations, has decided on large-scale closures of its domestic plants for the first time in a quarter of a century. The company should minimize the ...

Aging infrastructure, including bridges, roads and sewerage, could lead to serious accidents, and the issue cannot be left unattended. A long-term strategy must be devised for how to proceed with its ...

The original copy of the “Imperial Rescript of the Termination of the War” will be shown at a special exhibition held at the National Archives of Japan in Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo, starting Saturday.

A Japanese high court branch Friday acquitted a 60-year-old man in a high-profile retrial over the 1986 murder of a ...

Foreign nationals have become a topic of contention in the House of Councillors election campaign, fanned by public concerns ...

Chinese customs authorities have granted permission for the import of 449 fisheries items from Japan, such as scallops, tuna ...