Post offices across Japan started accepting New Year's greeting cards on Sunday and many people are now dropping them off. But the custom is threatened by online communication and higher card prices.

Bank of Japan policymakers are meeting this week amid expectations they may raise interest rates. The bankers meet for two days from Wednesday. Many have indicated the economy and prices are ...

The US Federal Reserve is expected to cut its key interest rate when it meets this week. The Fed is also due to release its projections for future rate movements. Fed policymakers will meet for ...

A cyclone has struck Mayotte, a French territory in the Indian Ocean off the eastern coast of Africa. Local authorities fear a large number of casualties. Officials in Mayotte reportedly told ...

South Korea's joint investigation unit says it will ask President Yoon Suk-yeol to appear for questioning over his short-lived declaration of martial law. The unit, which includes investigators ...

A high court in Hiroshima has dismissed a lawsuit by the children of some survivors of the city's atomic bombing. The plaintiffs claimed the law which provides medical support for survivors but ...

Four Japanese high school students working as "peace ambassadors" for the abolition of nuclear weapons have pledged to inherit the wishes of atomic bomb survivors for a world free of nuclear arms.

A suicide bombing in Afghanistan has taken the life of the Taliban's acting minister for refugees. Khalil Haqqani's killing is the first such death among the Taliban's inner circle since the group ...

Families of Japanese citizens abducted by North Korea have called for the rescue of all victims as soon as possible at a symposium held by the Japanese government in Tokyo. Chief Cabinet Secretary ...

Japan's Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako will visit Wajima City in Ishikawa Prefecture, central Japan, which suffered severe damage in a powerful earthquake on New Year's Day and torrential ...

Japan's defense minister has briefed the mayor of Nago City in Okinawa Prefecture on the start of the relocation of US Marines based in the prefecture to Guam as part of the government's effort to ...