Facing a global market meltdown, President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly backed off his tariffs on most nations for 90 days even as he further jacked up the tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%.

Police in Goshogawara City, Aomori Prefecture, have arrested a 38-year-old unemployed woman and a 28-year-old male acquaintance on suspicion of performing indecent acts on the woman’s elementary ...

Suspected U.S. airstrikes that pounded the area around Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeida have killed at least 10 people, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Wednesday. The strikes Tuesday night hit ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and NATO chief Mark Rutte vowed Wednesday to further deepen military ties while stressing the need to tackle together growing threats from China, North Korea and ...

In the United States, the Trump administration’s firing and furloughing of tens of thousands of federal workers and contractors have obviously caused economic hardship for Americans employed in ...

Judges in Texas and New York on Wednesday said they would temporarily bar the U.S. government from deporting Venezuelans jailed in parts of those two states while their lawyers challenge the Trump ...

Brazil will join the United States, Mexico, Italy and Britain in Group B of the first round of next year's World Baseball Classic at Houston’s Minute Maid Park. Major League Baseball and the players’ ...

Sharp Corp has sold part of its liquid crystal display panel factory site in western Japan to telecom giant KDDI Corp for 10 billion yen as they jointly seek to build an artificial intelligence data ...

A convenient train ride from Tokyo to Odawara by the regular Tokaido Line (one and a half hours) or Tokaido Shinkansen (35 minutes), Odawara Castle Park is an ideal getaway from bustling Tokyo to ...

Loyal customers of Asian supermarkets and other grocery stores that specialize in selling imported food heaved a collective sigh of dismay when President Donald Trump announced extra-high U.S. tariffs ...

Arsenal’s win over Real Madrid conclusively sealed England’s long-expected fifth guaranteed entry in the Champions League next season. In the new 36-team Champions League format, UEFA awards bonus ...

Nana Shimada, general manager of FamilyMart Co’s product division. Rather than being exclusive to makeup counters or brand-specific stores, Japan’s convenience stores and lifestyle chains have begun ...