Alcohol tax rates in Japan will change on October 1. Tax rates for beer-like beverages are being unified, which will result in a tax cut of 9.1 yen per 350 ml for beer, while taxes on happoshu ...

Ukraine has sent two North Korean prisoners of war to South Korea, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, following months of consultations between Kyiv ...

Thailand is the latest country to slam the organization at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in Japan, likening it to a "chaotic" game of "musical chairs". Athletes have complained of poor accommodation, ...

A senior Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department official, explaining that neighborhood koban (police boxes) are closing one after another at night in the Japanese capital because there are not enough ...

Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington on Wednesday, where he was met with a rare planeside greeting from President Donald Trump, who was there to welcome his counterpart instead of ...

As President Donald Trump's agenda has increasingly encountered resistance, he has turned to a familiar strategy: invoking national security. Last weekend, Trump declared that his planned 250-foot ...

The world's leading artificial intelligence companies warned the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday of the risks posed by AI to humanity, appealing for governments to ‌work together to ...

The body of a child was found Wednesday on the coast of an outlying island in northeastern Japan, with police investigating whether it could be a 6-year-old boy who went missing in the area earlier ...

Police in Hakodate, Hokkaido, have arrested a 37-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting a taxi driver and refusing to pay the fare. According to police, the incident occurred at around 2:50 a.m. on ...

This year's powerful El Nino and the record global heat it's driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by ...

TP Vision has announced the addition of a new translucent color — featuring a semi-transparent, clear material — to the Philips-branded TAH2000 wireless headphones. The Philips TAH2000 features an ...

Meta has disrupted more than 3.7 million scam-linked accounts, pages and other content this year based on information provided by the Singapore police, the company said Wednesday. The social media ...