Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailor, pharmacist, tax accountant, bus driver, chef. Name the profession, and Japan ...

Two people in a city north of Tokyo, Japan were injured after a bear wandered into a grocery store and began rummaging through food, Japanese authorities said on Wednesday. According to Japan’s ...

Tokyo — An agitated bear roamed the aisles of a grocery store in central Japan, injuring two men and frightening shoppers, officials said Wednesday, while Japanese media said a man was found dead ...

Japan’s favorite beer brand is reeling from a cyberattack that paralyzed its production last week. Its factories have started brewing again, and some truckloads of beer are leaving its warehouses, but ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. On Saturday, Mai and Ayako’s phones lit up with breaking news that neither had expected to read for years: ...

Masanaga Kageyama has been handed a suspended jail sentence and banned from France for 10 years A senior official of the Japan Football Association (JFA) has been handed a suspended jail term of 18 ...

The Aussie budget airline said it would discount almost 25,000 fares to Tokyo, Osaka and Seoul in South Korea between midnight Wednesday, October 8 and Sunday, October 12 (AEDT). Club Jetstar members ...

Sports Mole previews Friday's International Friendlies clash between Japan and Paraguay, including predictions, team news and possible lineups. Japan will be looking to bounce back from a winless ...

MANILA, Philppines — Alex Eala, with a new career-high world ranking at No. 54, is enjoying a little break in Wuhan, China before resuming her campaign in Japan next week in a bid to win her second ...

Minesweeper tender JS Uraga (MST-463) and destroyer JS Sawagiri (DD-157) practice minelaying south of the Sakishima Islands, Oct 3, 2025. Joint Staff Office of the Japan Self-Defense Forces photo ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio — When you walk up the stairs into Sushi Kuwahata, an eight-seat, reservation-only omakase restaurant in Ohio City, your five senses are easily tricked into thinking you’ve traveled to ...

Sanae Takaichi won the leadership of Japan's ruling party on Oct 4, 2025, putting her on course to become the country's first woman prime minister. (Yuichi Yamazaki/Pool via Reuters/File Photo) TOKYO: ...