Tag: Japan

Hundreds of devotees walked to a muddy field at dawn and covered themselves from head to toe with mud and ...

Ireland overpowered Japan 35-13 on Saturday to finish with a perfect record in their three-game summer tour of the country. ...

The death of a former newsreader who won acclaim for blogging about her breast cancer fight hit the headlines Saturday ...

Masahiro Tanaka pitched eight scoreless innings and Yu Davish fanned 10 batters as the New York Yankees beat Texas 2-1 ...

India's Kidambi Srikanth overcame compatriot Sai Praneeth 25-23, 21-17 to reach the semi-finals of badminton's Australian Open in Sydney on ...

The US navy said Friday it will hold a memorial ceremony for seven sailors killed when their destroyer collided with ...

North Korea has tested a new rocket engine as part of its efforts to build a missile capable of reaching ...

EU leaders tackle the thorny topic of globalisation at a summit on Friday with deep divisions between proponents of free ...

A baby panda recently born in Japan is a girl, a Tokyo zoo said Friday, adding that the little cub ...

A Japanese governor has retracted his call for North Koreans to be "starved to death" if Pyongyang were to target ...

The US government has launched a compensation scheme for survivors of Japanese atrocities in Guam, 73 years after hostilities ended ...

WhatsApp is becoming one of the prevailing ways people discover and discuss news, according to a study. But use of ...

North Korea on Thursday called US President Donald Trump a "psychopath" as tensions soar following the death of American student ...

The head of Taiwan's tech giant Foxconn said Thursday its pursuit of Toshiba "is not yet over", a day after ...

Hollywood star Russell Crowe will chair a jury to decide the best Asian production at Australia's annual film awards this ...

Takata shares plummeted by more than 50 percent in early trade Thursday on fears the troubled airbag maker plans to ...

Senior US officials will meet their Chinese counterparts Wednesday to seek a tougher line on North Korea's nuclear ambitions -- ...

Angola's capital Luanda has overtaken Hong Kong to become the costliest city in the world for expats, Mercer's annual survey ...

The frenzied drummer who is the force behind rockers X Japan declared headbanging to be "no good" on Tuesday as ...

The US Navy's top commander visited Japan Tuesday to meet with the grieving families of seven sailors killed in a ...