From the badass power of mirror shades to a bottom-warming success story... Your weekly roundup of offbeat stories from around the world.

From samurai to skyscrapers and sushi to shrines, this Asian archipelago is the ultimate destination for families with ...

THE mangled wreck of a missing tourist helicopter has reportedly been found by an active volcano in southern Japan. Two ...

The restart of the No 6 reactor at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa plant had been suspended because of a glitch related to control ...

TOKYO – A Japanese court on Wednesday will sentence a man who's admitted assassinating former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo ...

The world's biggest nuclear power plant was restarted Wednesday for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, its ...

The world's biggest nuclear power plant is set to restart on Wednesday for the first time since the 2011 Fukushima disaster, its Japanese operator said, despite persistent safety concerns among ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Monday called for a snap election three months after being elected to office in ...

Japan posted a trade deficit for the fifth year straight in 2025, according to government data, as concerns continued to grow ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced a 45-year-old man to life imprisonment for fatally shooting ​former Prime Minister ...

Japan's punk rock lawyer Akihiro Shima was belting out songs at a packed bar in Tokyo, sporting a mohawk and bright-red jacket, nine days after filing a landmark climate lawsuit.

Jan 20 (Reuters) - Russia's Far East was buried under metres of snow by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years on Tuesday as a ...