Nobody likes getting a swab shoved up their nose. A startup in Japan has developed a much less intrusive system.

The train collided with the four men at Shin-Kanuma Station, north of Tokyo, authorities say.

People are being urged to stay alert, with earthquake aftershocks potentially reaching magnitude 7, officials say

Apple CEO Tim Cook today said Apple would be making a donation to support earthquake relief efforts in Japan. A magnitude 6.8 earthquake (per the USGS) hit the Kumamoto prefecture on Kyushu island on Tuesday, collapsing buildings and killing at least 34 …

Watch director Takashi Yamazaki film in IMAX for the next 'Godzilla' movie, out November 6.

Searchers continued to work in the Kumamoto area, including at the site of the collapsed mall, where some of the most serious damage was recorded.

You can hear his neighbors' collective sighs of relief echoing across the Pacific.

The epic recently crossed $1 billion and has 'The Dark Knight' and 'The Dark Knight Rises' in its sights.

Sia and Mikael Lilja decided to start over in Japan after realizing children were no longer part of their future.

Goki Akuzawa swapped finance for farming, restoring rice terraces and opening a guesthouse and sake brewery in rural Japan.

By Tim Kelly, Maki Shiraki, Daniel Leussink and Sam Nussey KUMAMOTO, Japan, July 31 (Reuters) - A powerful earthquake that struck southern Japan this week ha...

An increased demand in wool has meant prices have increased more than 70% in the last year.

I live in Japan and have traveled beyond the popular tourist destinations like Tokyo and Osaka. Some of my favorite day trips are Saitama and Nara.

When Masashi Nakamura learned his grandfather planned to close his Wagyu farm, he offered to take over and moved back to Japan.

Tracy Block learned to blend whisky, ate black bear, and tried on a $30,000 vintage kimono on her first trip to Japan.

At a Hiroshima memorial ceremony, Japan's prime minister said the country "maintains" its three long-standing non-nuclear principles, reports UPI. But the prime minister "stopped short of promising that the policy would remain unchanged, fueling speculation…

SoftBank plans a record 1 trillion yen retail bond sale, about $6.3bn, the largest by any issuer in Japan, to fund investment commitments to OpenAI. Analysts say banks were reluctant to take the risk, leaving the deal dependent on retail investors. SoftBank h…

Japan is studying whether to move the settlement of stocks and government bonds onto blockchain infrastructure capable of running in real time around the clock, according to Nikkei, in a project involving the Financial Services Agency, the Ministry of Finance…

The suspected launch on Thursday comes a day after North Korea shrugged off a U.S. decision to scale back military drills with South Korea in an apparent bid to resume diplomacy.

Time was running out to find survivors, as rescuers continued to work in the Kumamoto area on Japan 's southern main island of Kyushu, where the magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Tuesday.

At least eight people died in Japan as heavy rains flooded roads and disrupted traffic while firefighters from Britain to France and Croatia struggled to contain blazes in Europe's fifth heatwave this summer

The author and translator of <em>Taiwan Travelogue, </em>the winner of the 2026 International Booker Prize, discuss identity and history amid the debate over Taiwan's colonial ties to Japan and escalating geopolitical pressure from China.

When I moved to Japan for a year, I just packed a suitcase and carry-on. There are a few things, like deodorant, that I wish I'd brought from home.

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said the death toll from the July 28 earthquake in southern Japan has risen to 13, with many more people injured as re...

Almost no other country in the world is rocked by such frequent and damaging earthquakes as Japan, which sits on the boundary of four tectonic plates.

TOKYO, Aug 7 (Reuters) - Hundreds of thousands of people in southwestern Japan were ordered to evacuate and more than 500 flights cancelled on Friday as slow...

TOKYO, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi visited a shrine to the nation's war dead on Saturday, prompting rebukes from China and...

By Tim Kelly TOKYO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Japan's government is portraying its accelerating military buildup not only as a way to protect the country but as a ro...

The live-fire marks the culmination of years of modifications, training, and cooperation between the US and Japan.

The former prison also served as a filming location for the second season of Netflix's Japanese series "Alice in Borderland."

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The man had taken his two boys on the trip but is said to have left one behind when he got tired.

Illegal bread dumping is confounding park officials in Daisen, a small town in Japan's Tottori prefecture. Large numbers of loaves, totalling 39 kilograms, have appeared on the Daisen loop road near Daisenji Temple in recent days—a meal accompanied on one occ…

By Makiko Yamazaki TOKYO, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Japan recorded a current account deficit in June for the first time in 17 months, data from the finance ministry...

TOKYO, Aug 4 (Reuters) - Japan may not have intervened in the currency market on Monday, central bank data indicated, despite a sudden surge in the yen that...

The unusual funding method backed a joint U.S.-Japan move that lifted the yen to 157 per dollar, but economists say it won't fix underlying issues

When Masashi Nakamura learned his grandfather planned to close his Wagyu farm, he offered to take over and moved back to Japan.

Aug 13 () - Russian President Vladimir Putin visited Iturup, a Japan-claimed island at the end of the Kuril chain ‌near the island of Hokkaido, Russian media...

By Atsuko Aoyama and Noriyuki Hirata TOKYO, July 31 (Reuters) - Japan may have sold as much as $58.97 billion in its latest efforts to bolster its currency,...

"Markets are primed for Dollar debasement to resume and — as Japan shows — it can be next to impossible to stabilize a currency once it enters a devaluation...

South Korea, the U.S. and Japan will go ahead with a trilateral military drill next month to better deal with North Korean nuclear threats, officials in Seou...

July has been a busy month for AppleCare+ news. We have recapped all the changes to AppleCare+ and the AppleCare One bundle below. In the U.S., Apple raised the prices on monthly ‌and annual AppleCare‌+ subscription plans for Macs and iPads by $0.50/mont…

Usually, the name ‘Famicom’ and the associated Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) don’t exactly bring to mind downloadable content and online services. However, at least in Japan, a modem add-on for …read more

In the future, you will get in the human refrigerator and you'll like it.

On August 6, 1945, a 10-foot-long uranium bomb called "Little Boy" was dropped on the Japanese city of Hiroshima.

SEOUL, July 31 (Reuters) - An editorial carried by North Korean state media KCNA on Friday criticised the expansion of the U.S.

The two women's employer has apologised for sending them back to Aeon Mall to secure cash.

By Leika Kihara and Tamiyuki Kihara TOKYO, July 29 (Reuters) - Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is fighting a losing battle in the polls, making a retr...

By Tamiyuki Kihara, Makiko Yamazaki and Leika Kihara TOKYO, Aug 2 (Reuters) - Japanese Finance Minister Satsuki Katayama will announce on Monday that Tokyo a...

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Chelsea consider a move for Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez after making contact with the Argentina international's representatives.

MOSCOW, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Russia delivered a strong protest to Japan's ambassador to Moscow on Tuesday over what it called anti-Russian remarks by Prime Min...

Osaka ranked seventh and Tokyo tenth in the Economist Intelligence Unit's 2026 Global Liveability Index. Japan was the only Asian country with two cities in the top 10. BBC Travel asked residents and planners why, and their answers came down to four rules. — …

Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted a senior Nvidia manager and eight others over an alleged scheme that shipped 74 servers containing B300 chips to China via Japan and Indonesia. They are seeking five years for forgery and breach of trust. The first known cr…

This is the first time since June 2025 that the country has enacted capital punishment.

As Japan swelters through extreme summer heat, BBC Tokyo correspondent Kurumi Mori tries out a new way to cool down.

By Heejin Kim and Kyu-seok Shim SEOUL, Aug 5 (Reuters) - North Korea's Kim Yo Jong, the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un, warned on Wednesday that Pyong...

The iPhone 17 retained its position as the world's best selling smartphone in the second quarter of 2026, according to Counterpoint Research, with the iPhone 17 Pro Max and ‌iPhone 17 Pro‌ holding the next two spots on the firm's quarterly ranking. Data …

Washington's more hands-on approach to the Treasury market has raised concerns about central banks' appetite for dollar assets.

Taiwanese prosecutors have indicted nine people over the alleged illegal export of high-end AI servers to China, among them an employee of Nvidia’s Taiwan operation and two from Super Micro. The charges are the first to emerge from an investigation that has r…

Just hours after announcing Apple’s support for communities affected by wildfires in southern Europe, Tim Cook said the company will also donate to relief efforts following the Kumamoto earthquake in Japan. Here are the details.

The Unitree G1 has found online fame as a relatively affordable robot that can charm a crowd. But can it ever hold down a real job?

De Acupunctura is a 1683 book by the Dutch physician Willem ten Rhijne, and it came out of one of the most roundabout translation jobs on record. Ten Rhijne was living at Dejima, the artificial island off Nagasaki that was the only piece of Japan open to Euro…

Short answer: their laws are much better

The United States has already banned future foreign drones from entering the United States unless their companies kiss the ring - as well as routers, robots, and Roombas. Now, President Donald Trump is targeting existing drone imports and aircraft parts, too.…

The Japanese yen recently touched its lowest value against the dollar in 40 years.

Apple this month began selling certified refurbished Studio Display XDR models in the U.S. for the first time since the display was released in March. Availability extends to Australia, New Zealand, Canada, Japan, and select other countries. A refurbish…

Apple CEO Tim Cook today pledged that the company will make a donation toward relief and rebuilding work in Nepal and Tibet, where flash floods and mudslides have killed hundreds of people. On Wednesday, part of a Himalayan glacier collapsed, briefly dam…

SEOUL, Aug 15 (Reuters) - South Korean President Lee Jae Myung called on Saturday for talks with North Korea to pursue peaceful coexistence, saying Seoul wou...

By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida, Aug 19 (Reuters) - Long-dated U.S. bond yields and the dollar tumbled on Wednesday after the U.S.

The CBO reported that net interest on public debt totaled $963 billion between October 2025 (when the fiscal year begins) and July 2026.

Emperor Meiji first visited the site that would become one of Japan’s most controversial shrines in 1874. More than 2.4 million people are now honored at Ya...

The commission Apple earns from the App Store is shrinking in markets where it has been forced to relax its grip on in-app purchases, based on new analytics data. According to Appfigures, cited by the Financial Times ($), Apple's U.S. commission revenue…

Helsing, the Munich startup that has become Europe’s best-funded defence-AI company, is pushing into Asia, and it has found an unlikely guide. The German firm has enlisted Japan’s Rakuten, a name better known for e-commerce and mobile phones, to help broker t…

"Now traders are watching the 'yen carry trade,' where cheap yen borrowing funds bets on higher-yielding assets worldwide, and wondering if it’s about to blo...

"I wake up early in the morning and stay up late at night, sometimes until 3 a.m., just to make art," Yayoi Kusama said in 2014.

At least 13 people have been killed after the earthquake struck the island of Kyushu on Tuesday.

"When this message sinks in, other countries will redouble their search for more attractive, readily usable alternatives."

Softness in mobile gaming and Apple's changes to the App Store business model in some countries impacted the performance of the ‌App Store‌, Apple CFO Kevan Parekh said during today's earnings call. Apple's services revenue was $30.7 billion, a 12% incre…

The Japanese film poster for STOLEN DESIRE (1958), directed by Shohei Imamura. During the post-war years in Japan, a new generation of filmmakers began to address the changing social and political …

Japan Just Solved the Bulky Dish Rack Problem for $75Even though I live alone and rarely have anyone over, one problem I still face almost every day is washing and drying dishes and other...

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Icelandic coast guards and special forces seized a ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson and detained its crew, officials in...

Unter den G-7-Staaten richten nur die USA und Japan noch Menschen hin. Nach mehr als einem Jahr war es in Japan nun wieder so weit. Der Verurteilte hatte ein folgenschweres Feuer gelegt.

You have to imagine that the team at Game Freak is bursting with ideas. The studio puts out new mainline Pokémon adventures with a machinelike precision. But every so often it launches a curious experiment, whether it's an action title about a militarized ele…

Employees of Nvidia and Sun Micro were part of a scheme to smuggle AI servers into China, according to prosecutors in Taiwan.

Taiwanese prosecutors charged nine people Monday, including one from Nvidia and two from Super Micro, for illegally exporting “high-end AI servers” to mainla...

By David Shepardson, Nora Eckert and Kalea Hall Aug 17 (Reuters) - U.S. and Canadian trade negotiators were haggling over a potential reduction in President...

By Satoshi Sugiyama TOKYO, Aug 13 (Reuters) - Asian stocks rose on Thursday after U.S. inflation data came in as expected, dampening expectations of further...

The special effects sorcerer conjured his specific brand of big screen grotesqueries through Freddy Krueger, Predator and the PlayStation’s most surreal pinball game