Rice prices in Tokyo surged more than 90 percent in April from a year earlier, despite recent stockpile releases by the government aimed at boosting supply to stabilize the staple food market, ...

The Japanese government is considering increasing imports of U.S. soybeans and corn as part of ongoing negotiations with Washington over U.S. President Donald Trump's imposition of tariffs on ...

More than 100,000 mourners filed into St. Peter's Basilica on Friday to pay their respects to Pope Francis, viewing his open coffin in the final visiting hours ahead of his funeral on Saturday. Soon ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview published Friday that “Crimea will stay with Russia," the latest example of how he's pressuring Ukraine to make concessions to end the war while the ...

A man was stabbed to death during the morning rush hour in the New York City subway system Friday after a dispute with another rider who had stepped on the man's shoes, police said, adding it was the ...

Novak Djokovic, winner of a record 24 Grand Slam titles, says he can feel the changes taking place in tennis. People have started to accept, he says, that there is no more Roger Federer, no more ...

Three men who plotted to kill a former cage fighter, who years before had been convicted of being one of the ringleaders in the UK's biggest-ever heist, were sentenced Friday to a collective term of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he pushed Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to allow food and medicine into the devastated Gaza Strip. No aid has been delivered to the ...

Potentially harmful PFAS chemicals have been detected at high levels in rivers and groundwater across 22 of Japan's 47 prefectures, a government survey conducted in fiscal 2023 showed Friday. The ...

When Cold Stone arrived in Japan in 2005, it was a near-instant hit, with long lines of customers at just about every branch excitedly listening to the singing staff as they waited for their order.

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 43-year-old man on suspicion of indecent assault after he allegedly groped a girl in her late teens as she walked home two weeks ago. The incident occurred at around ...

Liverpool manager Arne Slot rejected the notion that his team’s imminent Premier League title triumph has come easy, saying Friday that it is harder than ever to win games in England’s top division.