President Joe Biden is convening the leaders of Australia, India and Japan for a Quad summit in his hometown of Wilmington, ...

Panicking, the woman withdrew her savings and used it to buy a 1.3-kilogram gold bar then worth about 17.7 million yen ...

Israel launched a rare airstrike that killed a senior Hezbollah military official in a densely populated southern Beirut ...

Lebanon's health ministry says 14 people were killed and dozens injured in the strike, as cross-border exchanges escalate.

Kinori Sugihara Rosnow is the descendant of Holocaust survivors who fought against the Nazis. When Kinori Sugihara Rosnow ...

An average tourist to Tokyo would find it difficult to believe the country’s population is shrinking after seeing the ...

A career in finance seemed like a distant prospect, growing up in a farm in South Africa, recalls Megan McDonald, the head of Daiwa Capital Markets Europe. Her education options were limited: her ...

Though different meteorological phenomena are behind the series of storms, climate scientists agree an underlying factor is ...

The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has reached a record high of more than 95,000, with nearly 90 percent of them ...

The number of people in Japan aged 100 or older has hit a record high of more than 95,000 -- almost 90 percent of them women ...

Japan's number of people aged 65 and over has reached a record high, cementing it as the worlds most elderly country, ...

Japan recorded 350,074 births between January and June, reflecting a nearly 6 percent decline from the previous year, according to health ministry statistics. This was the lowest figure since 1969, ...