The BOJ held interest rates steady at 0.25% at this month's meeting, a move Gov. Kazuo Ueda explained was aimed at ...

The decline reflected the mass departure of teachers who reached retirement age, which led to increased demand for new ...

Many local facilities including hospitals were left dysfunctional due to power and water outages and building damage.

Under current regulations, OTC drugs can only be sold at stores with pharmacists or other qualified personnel stationed at ...

Among targets hit Thursday included military infrastructure at the Sanaa International Airport and in the Hezyaz and Ras ...

Flight J2-8243 crashed on Wednesday in a ball of fire near the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan after diverting from an area of ...

The seven lucky gods pilgrimage is a less hurried alternative to the often-crowded first temple or shrine visit of the year.

At least 10,457 migrants died or disappeared while trying to reach Spain by sea in 2024, an NGO said Thursday, more than 50% ...

The Constitutional Court on Friday meets for its first hearing of the case of President Yoon Suk Yeol following his ...

Russia's Federal Security Service said on Thursday it had foiled several plots by Ukrainian intelligence services to kill ...

The Tokyo core consumer price index, which excludes volatile fresh food costs, rose 2.4% in December from a year earlier.

Prosecutors failed to properly investigate Iwao Hakamata, 88, who was acquitted this year in his retrial for the murder of ...