16+ hour, 42+ min ago   (269+ words) BEIJING - North Korea said Monday it has conducted a joint firepower drill involving ballistic and cruise missiles as well as attack drones, according to state-run media, a day after Japan, South Korea and the United States ended a military exercise....

17+ hour, 49+ min ago   (493+ words) COTABATO CITY, The Philippines - Voters in the Philippines' Muslim-dominated Bangsamoro autonomous region went to the polls Monday for its first parliamentary election as agreed in 2014 by the country's largest Islamic revolutionary group and the central government in ending a decades-long…...

16+ hour, 2+ min ago   (540+ words) YA'AN, China - With Japan now without pandas for the first time in nearly half a century, devoted fans are heading to southwestern China for a glimpse of Xiang Xiang, the former darling of Tokyo's Ueno Zoo. At the Bifengxia Base…...

1+ day, 15+ hour ago   (295+ words) KANAZAWA, Japan - Kagaya, a 120-year-old Japanese ryokan inn that remains closed after suffering major damage in the 2024 Noto Peninsula earthquake, has announced it will reopen by the end of fiscal 2028 with a new seven-story building. The new property will be…...

2+ day, 3+ hour ago   (138+ words) KYOTO - Twenty-eight people at a stadium in Kyoto were taken to hospital after eating boxed lunches on Saturday afternoon in a suspected case of food poisoning, first responders and other sources said. At around 4:30 p.m. on Saturday, a facility staffer at…...

2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (514+ words) NAGOYA - French chanson and Buddhist sutras may seem an unlikely combination, but for 87-year-old priest Miruo Nakano, they have become a way to convey a deeply personal message about peace and the preciousness of life. Known as the "Chanson Monk,…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (286+ words) URGENT: Info leak suspected following unauthorized access to Japan gov't network SEOUL - Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said Thursday it is in talks with the South Korean government on measures to limit children's use of social…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (416+ words) TOKYO - The world turned darker and more violent after the shocking terrorist attacks in the United States on Sept. 11, 2001, with fear instilled into people and nations, U.S. historian Peter Kuznick said in a recent interview with Kyodo News. The following are…...

3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (863+ words) According to the sociology professor, their awareness of the seaside city on Japan's southwestern main island of Kyushu is often limited to the few World War II-related details they were exposed to in high school. "There's a picture of the…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (161+ words) A Japanese Self-Defense Forces transport ship carrying three CH-47 helicopters arrived at a port in wildfire-hit Indonesia on Thursday to take part in the SDF's first firefighting mission overseas, the Japanese Defense Ministry said. Japan defense force ship arrives in…...