Tis the season to put on some brand-new holiday music. The best way to get festive is to sing along to Christmas classics new and old. But don’t know what to press play on? We've got you covered. In ...

Kabuki-themed film "Kokuho" had earned 17.37 billion yen in revenue at the box office as of Monday, becoming the highest-grossing live-action Japanese film ever, its distributor Toho Co said on ...

Japan is considering tightening its screening of foreigners seeking to acquire Japanese nationality by potentially lengthening the current minimum five-year residency requirement, a source close to ...

The sentient animals of the fictional city of Zootopia are back with a fairytale for our times, examining how the powerful exploit our prejudices, in a family-friendly movie Disney hopes will be a big ...

A 37-year-old woman has been arrested for attempting to set fire to the home of a 91-year-old man in Betsukai town, Hokkaido, where she worked as a caregiver. Police said Tomoyo Yoshida, a visiting ...

Best Buy raised its profit and sales expectations ahead of the holiday shopping ramp-up on Black Friday after a strong third quarter. Comparable-store sales at the nation's largest consumer ...

The European Union must ramp up efforts to break its dependence on China for rare earths faced with export curbs that amount to a "racket" by Beijing, the bloc's industry chief Stephane Sejourne said ...

U.S. retail sales lost momentum in September and firms grappled with an uptick in business costs, government data showed Tuesday, underscoring growing concerns about affordability in the world's ...

Imagine a future in which you not only get instructions for your job issued by an artificial intelligence, your boss could be replaced by an AI system. AI experts in Japan say that's not so ...

The 2026 World Cup draw next week will reward the four highest-ranked teams — Spain, Argentina, France and England — who will be placed in separate sections of a new tennis-style seeded tournament ...

Carlos Alcaraz recently wrapped up his 2025 official schedule with the ATP's year-end No. 1 ranking, tour-highs of 71 match wins and eight trophies and a pair of Grand Slam titles that lifted his ...

Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro started on Tuesday to serve his 27-year prison sentence for leading a coup attempt designed to keep him in office after losing the 2022 presidential elections ...