Across the United States, more than 5,400 data centers quietly power the digital services that have become essential to ...

Abundant snowfall, natural onsens and varied slopes make Japan's ski scene not only one of the most snow-sure but also the ...

Akita Prefecture has Japan's most aged population, lowest birthrate and fastest declining population. Rigid gender roles are ...

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The 1980s and '90s are taking over Paristown this weekend as the Rad Revival returns for its third year, promising bigger ...

Gender inequality is accelerating young Japanese women's flight from rural areas to the cities, further depressing the country's already low birthrate.

- Tetsuya Yamagami, bottom, is detained near the site of gunshots in Nara Prefecture, western Japan, on July 8, 2022.

Veterinary medicine has attracted its own crop of anti-vaccine influencers, who sow doubt about vaccines. Children’s Health ...

Chinese customs officers in eastern Shandong province have seized 60,000 maps that "mislabelled" the self-governed island of Taiwan, which Beijing claims as part of its territory. The maps, ...

A map shows where Japan will conduct a large-scale exercise on land and in waters and airspace around the archipelagic country later this month, as the United States security ally faces growing ...

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SAPPORO, Japan -- The Hokkaido Spaceport in the town of Taiki, located on Japan's northern main island, has rocketed to global prominence after it hosted the first launch of a foreign vessel earlier ...