On the outside looking in on the NCAA tournament picture entering Saturday, bubble team Louisville got a much-needed 75-68 road win win over Virginia Tech to bolster its mediocre résumé. It's a ...

Japan’s prime minister refused to step down despite losing his majority, thanks in part to a surge in hard-Right support.

Plenty of contentious issues loom ahead of Sunday’s elections in Japan: a shrinking economy, falling real wages and no trade deal to shield against US President Donald Trump’s tariffs. However, the ...

TOKYO – Japan’s Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has dominated the country for the last 70 years, losing control of the government only twice. A five-year-old party cobbled together on social ...

The Sanseito party is surging in polls with anti-immigration talk, but its rise is likely just a short-lived protest vote rather than the start of lasting right-wing populism.

Japan has executed a man convicted of murdering and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer”, was sentenced to death for killing ...

Translated to Women in Socks and Sandals for the Edinburgh Fringe from its original Danish title K.I.S.S (Kvinder I Sokker Og Sandaler), the show explores what happens when women enter a world ...

Global banks compete for talent in Japan, replicating bubble era dynamics Investment banks in Japan are experiencing a hiring frenzy reminiscent of the economic boom in the 1980s.

TOKYO -- Japan's global ranking in gross domestic product per capita is on track to drop from 29th last year to 45th in 2075, according to the Japan Center for Economic Research, which says that ...

Japan's land prices rose at their fastest pace in 34 years in 2024 with recovery spreading to regional areas thanks to sustained economic growth, in the latest sign of a pickup in the property market, ...