"Smartphones are dangerous" screams the headline of weekly business magazine President (April 4). Leading with "The new common wisdom of smartphones and damage to health," President devotes pages 14 ...

Judges in Texas and New York on Wednesday temporarily barred the U.S. government from deporting Venezuelans jailed in parts of those two states while their lawyers challenge the Trump administration’s ...

Facing a global market meltdown, President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly backed off his tariffs on most nations for 90 days even as he further jacked up the tax rate on Chinese imports to 125%.

A convenient train ride from Tokyo to Odawara by the regular Tokaido Line (one and a half hours) or Tokaido Shinkansen (35 minutes), Odawara Castle Park is an ideal getaway from bustling Tokyo to ...

Loyal customers of Asian supermarkets and other grocery stores that specialize in selling imported food heaved a collective sigh of dismay when President Donald Trump announced extra-high U.S. tariffs ...

Relatives of people trapped under the rubble of a Dominican Republic nightclub that collapsed, killing over 120, waited anxiously for news Wednesday as hopes of finding their loved ones alive began to ...

Brazil will join the United States, Mexico, Italy and Britain in Group B of the first round of next year's World Baseball Classic at Houston’s Minute Maid Park. Major League Baseball and the players’ ...

Suspected U.S. airstrikes that pounded the area around Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeida have killed at least 10 people, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said Wednesday. The strikes Tuesday night hit ...

Police in Goshogawara City, Aomori Prefecture, have arrested a 38-year-old unemployed woman and a 28-year-old male acquaintance on suspicion of performing indecent acts on the woman’s elementary ...

Japanese lawmakers elected to the House of Representatives in the general election last October had an average of 26.85 million yen in declarable financial assets and real estate, the lowest amount ...

Sharp Corp has sold part of its liquid crystal display panel factory site in western Japan to telecom giant KDDI Corp for 10 billion yen as they jointly seek to build an artificial intelligence data ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and NATO chief Mark Rutte vowed Wednesday to further deepen military ties while stressing the need to tackle together growing threats from China, North Korea and ...