Japan's antitrust regulator said Google used tactics that limited Yahoo Japan’s ability to compete in targeted search ads, and it promised to keep monitoring the U.S. firm.
The government said Monday it was closely monitoring reports that a Chinese professor at a Japanese university has been missing since he took a trip home over a year ago.
A huge vacant lot at the former site of the world-famous Tsukiji fish market in central Tokyo will turn into a commercial and residential complex featuring a 50,000-seat stadium, a culinary center and a transportation hub slated to open in the 2030s.
Remote working in Japan has declined after the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic came to an end, as more companies returned to the office, but hybrid work has taken root among many who adopted it, according to a survey.
The Nagoya District Court on Monday imposed a nine-year prison term and an ¥8 million ($51,700) fine on a 25-year-old woman — who went by the moniker “Sugar Baby Riri” — for swindling three men out of ¥156 million through a romance scam and for selling a manual on how to commit similar acts of fraud.
Following the Noto Peninsula earthquake on Jan. 1, Ishikawa Prefecture has received approximately 6,900 applications for the publicly funded demolition of houses — just 30% of the estimated number of homes believed to require such action.
The Liberal Democratic Party will accelerate discussions with its junior coalition partner, Komeito, and present its own proposal for political reform within this week, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida told a parliamentary committee meeting Monday.
Poland is ready to host nuclear arms if NATO decides to deploy the weapons in the face of Russia reinforcing its armaments in Belarus and Kaliningrad, President Andrzej Duda said in an interview published on Monday.
Rescuers on boats in China's flood-hit Guangdong province raced to evacuate trapped residents, carrying some elderly people by piggyback from their homes and deploying helicopters to save villagers caught in landslides.
North Korea fired several short-range missiles from the Pyongyang area on Monday, the South Korean military said, in the latest salvo launch by the nuclear-armed country.
The man who has been arrested in connection with the charred corpses of a man and a woman found on a riverbed in Tochigi Prefecture last week has told police that he did not know who the victims were.
Maldives President Mohamed Muizzu's party won control of parliament in a Sunday election landslide, results showed, with voters backing his tilt toward China and away from regional powerhouse and traditional benefactor India.
Issei Yamamoto became one of Japan’s best-known developers of artificial intelligence when his algorithm defeated the top-ranked player of shogi.
Hello Kitty is turning 50 this year, on Nov. 1, to be precise.
Nearly 17,000 Filipino and American troops kicked off a three-week joint combat training exercise in the Philippines on Monday that includes maritime drills in the South China Sea where Manila and Beijing have sparred over territorial claims.
Japan on Monday continued to search for seven missing crew members of two Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) helicopters that are believed to have collided over waters hundreds of kilometers south of Tokyo, with defense officials saying there was no indication of aircraft issues amid the possibility that an alert system may not have been activated.
It is time for Israel to recognize the force of the rapidly growing international movement to recognize Palestinian statehood, not as the final outcome of a political settlement, but as a path to achieving it.
Thin with a boyish face and earrings in both ears, 23-year-old Isayah Turner does not look like a stereotypical Trump supporter, who tend to be middle aged or older.
The incumbent prime minister of Solomon Islands was set to fall short of an outright election majority Monday, forcing the pro-Beijing Pacific leader to woo an unwieldy mix of potential coalition partners.
The United States has long dominated much of the knowledge economy, not least owing to an innovation environment that has proved highly attractive to foreign talent. But China has been watching carefully, adapting crucial lessons from the U.S. to the local context. And its efforts are bearing fruit.
Prime Minister Fumio Kishida marked 932 days in office Monday, tying with Ryutaro Hashimoto as the eighth-longest-serving prime minister in Japan since the end of World War II.
Twenty-two historic artifacts, including six portraits of monarchs of the Ryukyu Kingdom believed to have been taken outside Japan during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa, were discovered in the United States and returned to Okinawa, the Okinawa Prefectural Government announced last month.
Right outside the north exit of Chofu Station in western Tokyo is Shinko Syoten, a brick-and-mortar bookstore that Hideharu Yahata’s father-in-law opened in 1968 — back when Japan was on one of the most rapid economic growth trajectories the world has ever seen.
Middle East tensions and currency volatility have caused Japan’s record stock rally to falter, but the weakness looks temporary as solid corporate fundamentals and the long-term outlook for artificial intelligence provide support.
Even after the COVID-19 restrictions were lifted, some young people who had developed eating disorders during the pandemic due to stress are still suffering from symptoms.
