[TOKYO] Japan’s Nikkei share average climbed past the 50,000 level for the first time on Monday, continuing a run of successive records on expectations of sizeable spending from the nation’s new prime ...

East Japan Railway on Saturday started operating trains decorated with designs of two past Yamanote Line models, ahead of the 100th anniversary of the line's circular operation on Nov. 1. The two ...

Tokyo runners set new mass relay world record to mark start of World Athletics Championships After massive raid at Hyundai plant in Georgia, non-Korean families in crisis NATO jets scrambled to ...

The Tokyo Gap-Financing Market has unveiled its selection of 23 feature film projects for its sixth edition, showcasing a strong Southeast Asian presence alongside Italian co-productions. The lineup ...

USA's Abdihamid Nur, USA's Paul Chelimo and Kenya's Cornelius Kemboi compete in the men's 5000m heats during the World Athletics Championships at the National Athletics Centre in Budapest on August 24 ...

Mark Wahlberg released one of the first movies of 2025 with Flight Risk, but another of his action vehicles that’s now seven years old has resurfaced on streaming charts. Wahlberg stars alongside The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about economics, markets and policymaking throughout Asia. As a desperate President Donald Trump scours the globe for a ...

If punk is dead, nobody told the 10,000 Tokyo-area fans who packed Makuhari Messe for the finale of PUNKSPRING 2025. The annual, two-day festival — a cornerstone of Japan’s punk scene since 2003 — ...

Mark Zuckerberg is the buyer behind the cash sale of a $23 million mansion in Washington, DC’s tony Woodland Normanstone neighborhood, Politico reports. Shortly after the deal was finalized on March 6 ...

Following a cascade of backlash, the Los Angeles Times pulled down an Instagram Reels video Wednesday that showed a journalist uneasily perusing some of the concession items inside Japan’s famous ...