Cancer stick. Coffin nail. Cowboy killer. Those are nicknames, through the decades, for the cigarette — the once-glamorous desideratum of American society that has been tied to tens of millions of U.S ...

Handwritten text conveys the writer’s personality. Sometimes, thoughts become deeper as one is writing. Precisely because we live in an era in which it is easy to write using digital devices, a ...

Some people in Taiwan dubbed “new immigrants,” such as Chinese wives of Taiwanese men and their children, are being targeted by unfounded criticism from certain quarters.

For the fourth time and first since 2023, Japanese siblings Hifumi and Uta Abe stood atop the podium at the World Judo Championships on the same day.

Kappo Ryokan Futaba is a restaurant located in an area once known as the “Little Kyoto of Musashi” in Ogawa, Saitama Prefecture.

Two newly formed storms, Typhoons Nolo and Koguma, may impact Japan from this weekend into next week. According to the Japan Meteorological Agency, the “very strong” Typhoon Nolo was moving west at 30 ...

The Japanese government is acutely concerned about the public reaction to the arrest of a U.S. ｍarine on suspicion of robbery and murder in Okinawa Prefecture, with tensions running particularly high ...

The Blue Ocean Dome, a pavilion from the 2025 Osaka-Kansai Expo, will be disassembled and relocated to Thailand and France, according to sources.

Peak time has arrived for viewing autumn leaves on Mt. Kurikoma, a 1,626-meter mountain that straddles Miyagi, Akita and Iwate prefectures.

Ahead of the expected increase in visitors for the Shichigosan festival, a tradition involving prayers for children’s healthy growth, bagging of Chitose Ame candy has reached its peak at Nishinomiya ...

Prosecutors have submitted a record of “conversations” between a defendant and a conversational generative artificial intelligence chatbot as evidence in a trial at the Tokyo District Court, according ...

Opposition parties held protests in India’s capital New Delhi on Tuesday, demanding the resignation of the country’s election chief over a contentious revision of voter lists as hundreds of police ...