While Japan has some environmental problems it has yet to thoroughly understand and tackle, such as garbage in the Seto Inland Sea, overall, it’s a pretty clean country. The cities in particular are ...

At least 27 people were taken to hospital on Monday after a car plowed into soccer fans celebrating Liverpool's Premier League title victory. Police said a 53-year-old man had been arrested. Another ...

In a 2019 Washington Post article, “Japan wraps everything in plastic.Now it wants to fight against plastic pollution,” Simon Dener remarks that the amount of recycled plastic waste is quite low in ...

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday allowed President Donald Trump to maintain his deployment of National Guard troops in Los Angeles amid protests over stepped-up immigration enforcement, temporarily ...

Global free trade is in crisis, the head of the World Trade Organization chief said Tuesday while meeting Japanese Prime Minister Shigaru Ishiba on Tuesday. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, director-general of ...

China said Monday it "firmly rejects" U.S. claims that it had violated a sweeping tariffs deal, as tensions between the two economic superpowers showed signs of ratcheting back up. Beijing and ...

Iranian state television said the head of Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard was dead after an Israeli attack early Friday. The report offered few other details about what happened to Gen Hossein ...

With their sleek curves and chrome grilles, the classic American cars on sale at Yosuke Fukuda's yard ooze Californian cool but on Japanese roads new U.S. vehicles are a rare sight -- much to ...

The "Assassin's Creed" series of video games is adored for painstaking historic accuracy, but also sparks controversy with heavy use of artistic license -- most recently with a black samurai in the ...

Crowds of people angry about the way President Donald Trump is running the country marched and rallied in scores of American cities Saturday in the biggest day of demonstrations yet by an opposition ...

U.S. President Donald Trump once more appears to be losing patience with Vladimir Putin's warfare in Ukraine, but it remains unclear whether he will actually toughen his stand against the Kremlin ...

A large new study adds to evidence that diabetes during pregnancy is linked with an increased risk of brain and nervous system problems in children, including autism, researchers say. Whether diabetes ...