MBC's 'Manitto Club' season 2 members finally displayed one-team chemistry and captivated viewers. On the June 8 broadcast of MBC variety show 'Manitto Club' episode 6, the never-ending season 2 ...

Videos of Punch, a baby monkey, and his Ikea toy went viral on TikTok. Reeno Hashimoto took three trains to the zoo, east of Tokyo, to see what all the fuss was about. Visitors at Monkey Mountain were ...

It’s time for baseball’s international competition to move into the spotlight. That’s right: We’re less than a week away from the start of the 2026 World Baseball Classic, the sixth edition of the ...

Japan's stock market continued to revel in the sweeping election victory of Sanae Takaichi, with the Nikkei 225 index climbing a further 2.3% to a new record high on Tuesday. Hopes that Takaichi can ...

Liam Thompson explores Japan’s famous cat islands and meets more feline friends than he can count. Catherine O'Hara's cause of death revealed Trump administration's changes to the CFPB cost Americans ...

Rin Ushiyama was the recipient of a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship (2017-21) “The survival and reproduction of historical revisionism in Japanese public discourse: 1996-present.” Prime ...

In a historic outcome, Japanese Prime Minister Takaichi Sanae has secured a political mandate unprecedented in modern Japanese politics. In the February 8 general election, the ruling Liberal ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was on course for a sweeping mandate from voters for her economic policies and tough stance on immigration and China. Javier C. Hernández River Akira Davis Kiuko Notoya ...

When visiting a museum to learn about the samurai, one might expect to see suits of armor and elegant swords. The British Museum’s new exhibition, “Samurai,” which runs through May 4, does indeed ...

A meltdown in Japanese sovereign bonds, with yields on 40-year debt surging past 4% for the first time on record, may pile pressure on the Bank of Japan to act quicker to raise rates, according to ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party is reportedly planning to dissolve the country's Lower House: NHK Japanese media said the LDP was looking to capitalize on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's high ...