Already under global pressure over the mounting toll from the war in the Gaza Strip, Israel slipped further into international isolation on Wednesday after three European countries broke with their main EU partners and decided to recognize a Palestinian state.
A Brazilian government panel plans to discuss in July whether the federal government will offer an apology for the persecution of Japanese immigrants by Brazil during and after World War II.
Japan's 2024 defense white paper will emphasize North Korea's sustained focus on achieving qualitative improvements in its nuclear and missile capabilities, according to an early draft of the upcoming annual report.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida made a public push to woo foreign investment on Wednesday, pledging further capital market reforms and promoting asset management in a speech to hundreds of global investors in Tokyo.
The mayor of Suzu, Ishikawa Prefecture, on Wednesday stressed the need for the swift demolition of buildings damaged in the Jan. 1 Noto Peninsula earthquake in the prefecture.
Ever since a recent slush-funds scandal engulfed the Liberal Democratic Party, Komeito has sought to distance itself from its beleaguered coalition partner.
China began two days of joint military drills “surrounding the island of Taiwan” on Thursday, state-run media reported, days after the self-ruled island’s new president was sworn into office.
For seven hours at a Geneva hotel earlier this month, top U.S. and Chinese officials locked into talks on collectively managing their biggest fears around artificial intelligence — while keeping up a cutthroat competition to dominate technology that promises to reshape the global economy.
India’s weekslong election is drawing to a close. Between now and June 1, the remaining 164 of 543 constituencies in the lower house of India’s parliament will vote. Much attention to date has focused on how India’s religious and caste divides have become political fodder. In fact, tensions between Indian states may be even more dangerous.
Service prices, a key component of Japan’s inflation data, are sustaining momentum, adding to the case for the Bank of Japan to take another step before too long toward policy normalization.
Keisuke Asai (Toma Ikuta) and Ryu Ji-yong (Yang Ik-june) are old college friends on an annual pilgrimage to the mountain where their hiking buddy, Sayuri (the single-named Nao), disappeared 16 years earlier. When they get caught in a snowstorm and Ji-yong sustains a serious leg injury, he makes what he presumes will be a deathbed confession, admitting that he murdered the woman they’ve been mourning for all these years.
“Bushido” is veteran director Kazuya Shiraishi’s first samurai period drama, but like his acclaimed 2018 cops-versus-yakuza action movie “The Blood of Wolves,” the film is a lovingly conceived and meticulously executed throwback that revitalizes the genre.
A Michigan farmworker tested positive with bird flu, the second person to contract the potentially lethal virus that has run rampant in U.S. cattle.
Russia has launched a likely space weapon and deployed it in the same orbit as a U.S. government satellite, the Pentagon said.
U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s decision to stake the Conservative Party’s future on a rare summer election was so secret that even his chancellor of the exchequer, Jeremy Hunt, appeared surprised by the plan.
Israeli tanks advanced to the edge of a crowded district in the heart of Rafah on Wednesday during one of the most intense nights of bombardment of the southern Gaza city since Israel launched its offensive there this month.