An expert panel at Japan's education ministry is urging schools to bring in outside Japanese-language instructors to cope ...

North Korean media say the ruling Workers' Party will convene a plenary meeting of the Central Committee in late June.

The LDP's Yoshitaka Shindo said, 'If a state of emergency coincides with an election period, how will we run the country?' ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party, its coalition partner, the Japan Innovation Party, and the opposition Democratic Party for the People on Sunday expressed their support for the proposed creati ...

Netflix has expanded its Japanese programming slate by striking deals with two of the countries biggest broadcasters. The ...

Nobuyo Oyama, best known as the raspy voice of Doraemon, the beloved cartoon robotic cat from the future, has died. She was ...

Russia has invited foreign journalists to visit the site of a recent Ukrainian strike in Starobelsk, Luhansk, following a drone attack on a student dormitory. Several media outlets, including the BBC ...

Iran on Saturday accused the United States and its allies of 'obstructionism' after the third round of talks on the nuclear proliferation treaty (NPT) torpedoed at the United Nations, with the ...

Music Guild at St. Matthew's in Santa Monica closes its 2025-26 season May 29 at 8 p.m. featuring violinist YuEun Gemma Kim ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba vowed to establish a timeline for tax hikes to secure funding for Japan’s enhanced defense ...

Head of Committee to Protect Journalists warned that indirect forms of pressure such as lawsuits & restricted media access ...

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