A Seoul court on Thursday rejected a request by doctors and medical students to stop a government plan to increase medical school quotas, as a monthslong strike by junior medics drags on.
Two 25-gram bottles, one each of potassium cyanide and sodium cyanide, have gone missing from a laboratory at Osaka Metropolitan University’s Graduate School of Engineering.
Toshiba said on Thursday it will cut up to 4,000 jobs domestically as the industrial conglomerate accelerates its restructuring under new ownership.
Even before 三島由紀夫 (Mishima Yukio, Yukio Mishima) committed 切腹 (seppuku), a ritual samurai suicide rite that involved disemboweling himself with a katana before being beheaded by his co-conspirators, on Nov. 25, 1970, he had already secured his place in infamy.
Honda is sticking to its strategy of focusing more on electric vehicles in the coming years, the head of the company said Thursday, despite a recent slowdown in sales in several markets possibly clouding the outlook for demand.
The aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan departed the U.S. Navy's Yokosuka base in Kanagawa Prefecture on Thursday after nine years of deployment in Japan.
Starved and locked in a room under round-the-clock video surveillance, Dinabandhu Sahu spent sleepless nights wondering if he would ever again see his family back home in India after he was duped into a job scam in Cambodia.
Public support for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet edged up to 18.7% in May, a Jiji Press opinion poll showed Thursday.
Shinji Ishimaru, mayor of the city of Akitakata in Hiroshima Prefecture, said Thursday that he intends to run in the Tokyo gubernatorial race set to be held in July.
A convoy of boats carrying Philippine civilians bearing supplies for Filipino fishers has abandoned plans to sail closer to a China-held reef off the Southeast Asian country, organizers said Thursday.
JERA plans to invest ¥5 trillion ($32.4 billion) over the coming decade into renewable energy, new fuels like hydrogen and ammonia, and liquefied natural gas (LNG), global CEO Yukio Kani told reporters on Thursday.
Singapore was once known as an affluent and strait-laced city-state. Today, it’s a glitzy international destination. It has hosted Taylor Swift concerts and Formula One night races. And it is substantially richer, per capita, than the United States.
Japanese billionaire and influencer Yusaku Maezawa has said that he sued Facebook's Japan branch and its American parent company Meta for their negligence in regulating the use of his name and image in investment scams on their social media platforms.
Those spongy lumps of uncertain origin in instant cup noodles? Turns out consumers in Japan love them just as much as the main attraction.
As the United States intensifies efforts to reduce trade with China by hiking tariffs, it has greatly boosted imports from Vietnam, which relies on Chinese input for much of its exports, data shows.
A recent spate of robberies in several prefectures near Tokyo has put the police on high alert, with investigators looking into whether the same individuals were involved in the crimes.
Dealing with irate customers can be extremely stressful for call center workers but SoftBank thinks it has a solution: artificial intelligence-enabled software that softens the tone of customers' voices.
The day before Elon Musk fired virtually all of Tesla’s electric vehicle charging division last month, they had high hopes as charging chief Rebecca Tinucci went to meet with the billionaire businessman about the network’s future, four former staffers said.
It’s been four months since a liquefied natural gas tanker has passed through the narrow strait separating the Arabian Peninsula and Africa, testament to how violent attacks there have upended global energy trade.
When Microsoft pledged four years ago to remove more carbon than it emits by the end of the decade, it was one of the most ambitious and comprehensive plans to tackle climate change. Now the software giant's relentless push to be the global leader in artificial intelligence is putting that goal in peril.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was publicly challenged about post-war plans for the Gaza Strip on Wednesday by his own defense chief, who vowed to oppose any long-term military rule by Israel over the ravaged Palestinian enclave.
Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Beijing early on Thursday for talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping that the Kremlin hopes will deepen a strategic partnership between the two most powerful geopolitical rivals of the United States.
Five years after Amazon.com raised wages to $15 an hour, half of warehouse workers surveyed by researchers say they struggle to afford enough food or a place to live.
Yuan Keqin, a former professor at the Hokkaido University of Education, has been sentenced to six years in prison on espionage charges in China, sources said Wednesday.
When Toyota introduced the world’s first hybrid gasoline-electric vehicle in 1997, it made a loss on every Prius it sold. Decades later, booming sales in the category are delivering a much welcome cash boost.