12+ hour ago   (262+ words) Chubu Electric Power Co President Kingo Hayashi intends to resign over the utility's seismic data manipulation scandal during the screening for restarting reactors at the Hamaoka nuclear power plant in central Japan, sources close to the matter said Sunday. Chairman…...

13+ hour, 51+ min ago   (1499+ words) New strikes on Saudi Arabia and on ships in the Gulf tested nerves in the Middle East on Sunday, after an attack on a Saudi oil pipeline and an advance by Yemen's Houthis threatened to worsen the wartime disruption to…...

13+ hour, 48+ min ago   (250+ words) Japan needs its own foreign intelligence agency, the government's top spokesman said, as Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's administration seeks to ramp up the country's intelligence and counterespionage capabilities. Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara said in a speech at an event…...

13+ hour, 50+ min ago   (333+ words) At least six people died and another 129 are still missing after an Indonesian ‌passenger ship capsized in the Java Sea during bad weather early on Sunday, the search and rescue agency said. Crews managed to rescue 108 ‌people from the Virgo…...

13+ hour, 50+ min ago   (347+ words) Kosovo lawmakers on Sunday voted into office a new government of Prime Minister Albin Kurti following an early election in June in the small Balkan nation that remains locked in a prolonged political crisis. Kurti's government received support from a…...

1+ day, 8+ hour ago   (1619+ words) Canada might seem an unlikely target for a U.S. trade war. America has been “ripped off for 50 years by Canada,” the president declared Saturday when asked if he was considering pulling out of the three-way agreement he signed with the leaders…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (599+ words) A Japanese military transport ship docked on the island of Borneo on Thursday as part of a disaster relief mission to help fight wildfires in Indonesia that are causing a toxic haze impacting people’s health in other countries. Japan deployed…...

3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (791+ words) Mount Fuji's climbing season ended on Thursday, with foreigners accounting for 32 percent of climbers during the season that began about two months ago. The figures were compiled for the first time using an online trail reservation system introduced this year,…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago   (687+ words) The EU's climate monitor said Thursday that August was the hottest single month ever recorded globally, with ocean temperatures also reaching unprecedented highs as western Europe capped its warmest summer. In response to the assessment by the Copernicus Climate Change…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago   (208+ words) A 19-year-old worker died after falling about 40 meters from a transmission tower in western Japan on Wednesday, police said. The accident occurred when Kazuki Matsuoka was descending the tower in Kamikatsu, Tokushima Prefecture, at around 11:30 a.m. and parts of the safety…...