The US Labor Department says job gains in April exceeded market expectations, pointing to continued strength in the ...

On New Year's Eve, families in northeast Japan are visited by monster-like figures called namahage. We follow a group of men ...

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Trump wants to slash the trade deficit. Japan wants to protect a fragile economy. An expert suggests that Tokyo's negotiators ...

Double disasters on Japan's Noto Peninsula almost wiped out Koyama Masaki's decades-old chopstick business. Now he's back, ...

A Japanese expressway operator says it will not charge drivers who passed through its electronic toll gates, which ...

The US Geological Survey says an earthquake with an estimated magnitude of 7.4 struck off the southern coast of Argentina on ...

US employers added far more jobs than expected in April. The Labor Department said on Friday that nonfarm payrolls grew by ...

A body has been recovered from the cabin of a truck that fell into a massive sinkhole that opened in the city of Yashio, ...

Investigators say a car that hit seven children in western Japan zigzagged on the street before plowing into them. The driver ...

US Vice President JD Vance has predicted that fighting over Russia's invasion of Ukraine will not end quickly.

Traders reacted to the BOJ's lower growth forecast by selling the yen in Tokyo on Friday. At one stage the Japanese currency ...