U.S. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth praised the strong friendship between U.S. and Japan at the 80th anniversary of Battle ...

It is a problem most skiers and snowboarders would pay to have. Japan, long revered as a powder Mecca, has faced a chilling reality in recent years: warming winters, diminished snowfall ...

TOKYO, March 11 (Reuters) - Japan's economy expanded in the October-December quarter at a slower pace than initially reported, weighed by weaker consumption but still likely supporting the case ...

Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University student who helped lead last year’s pro-Palestinian demonstrations, was detained by the Department of Homeland Security on Saturday. Photo: Jeenah Moon ...

RIFU, Miyagi -- An ice show hosted by professional figure skater and back-to-back Olympic gold medalist Yuzuru Hanyu began in this northeast Japan town on March 7, ahead of the 14th anniversary of ...

US, Japan, Philippines stage navy drills in disputed South China Sea as a Chinese ship keeps watch ...

TOKYO, March 6 — The Japanese government plans to invite to Japan this summer stateless people born to Japanese nationals and left in the Philippines after World War II, to coincide with the ...

Greenland’s ice sheet is the second-largest ice cap on Earth, and because of the planet’s rising temperatures, it’s melting. Human-induced climate change is intensifying atmospheric rivers ...

Get Instant Summarized Text (Gist) Global sea ice cover reached a record low in February, with temperatures near the North Pole spiking up to 11°C above average. This decline in sea ice is ...

After earning absolute power over Japan’s feuding factions, Tokugawa Ieyasu became the island nation’s first shogun, and in the early 17th century he consolidated his political control in Edo ...

Antarctic sea ice has again fallen to a near-record low as a new study shows the system is undergoing a significant "structural change". Scientists have been using satellite images over the past ...