"Do you regularly encounter people from abroad?" This was the question posed to readers of the Asahi Shimbun's weekly "be ...

East Japan Railway Co President Yoichi Kise says the company will hire more technical staff and spend more on maintenance to ...

Manchester City closed the gap on Premier League leader Arsenal to three points with a 3-0 win against Fulham on Tuesday. Antoine Semenyo, Nico O'Reilly and Erling Haaland all struck in the first half ...

Japan's industry minister Ryosei Akazawa arrived Wednesday in Washington to put the finishing touches on a potential first batch of Japanese investment projects in the United States under a bilateral ...

Franjo von Allmen of Switzerland looks like a breakout star of the Milan Cortina Olympics after winning his third gold medal. Jordan Stolz has one gold and is targeting three more. And Chloe Kim and a ...

It’s hardly a surprise that filmmaker Emerald Fennell, who possesses a particular interest in shocking and riling her audience, was drawn to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights.” This is a novel that ...

Hokkaido, Japan’s northernmost, coldest, and snowiest prefecture, boasts world-class skiing and snowboarding venues. That’s not just an expression, either, as Hokkaido really does draw snowsport ...

Andrea Voetter and Marion Oberhofer hadn't won a race this season on the World Cup circuit. They weren't even contenders in many of them. Ah, the comforts of home. A little Italian ice changed ...

On February 7, in the hours between 1 and 2 a.m., a woman in her 20s living in the town of Nanyo, Yamagata Prefecture, received a series of messages via an app on her phone. The messages all came from ...

French figure skaters Guillaume Cizeron and Laurence Fournier Beaudry pulled off an incredible exploit on Wednesday, winning Olympic gold in ice dancing after skating together for just a year. Cizeron ...

A dozen people outside a Milan metro station on Wednesday stared intently at their phones until 8 a.m., when an Instagram post provided a location. It sent the group sprinting. “Run, don’t walk: we’re ...

Hong Kong has charged another Japanese man in connection with a high-profile robbery last month near a foreign exchange store involving 51 million yen ($326,300). Koki Hirose, 57, was brought before ...