What a long line! I had arrived at Ide Shoten, a famous Wakayama ramen shop located about a five-minute walk from JR Wakayama Station, and I was immediately overwhelmed to see how popular it remains.

Japan’s Nikkei share average fell on Friday, and was on track for a fourth straight weekly decline, as fading hopes for an imminent ceasefire in the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran dampened market optimism ...

Andy Pages hit a go-ahead, three-run homer in the fifth inning, and the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied past the Arizona Diamondbacks 8-2 on Thursday, opening the season with a victory in pursuit of their ...

Japanese slugger Munetaka Murakami wasted no time hitting his first homer in the major leagues. The circumstances surrounding that drive left the Chicago White Sox first baseman in no mood to ...

Cherry blossoms of the Someiyoshino variety have begun blooming in Mito, the Mito Regional Meteorological Observatory announced Wednesday.

Japan’s fiscal deficit is colossal. According to an estimate by the International Monetary Fund, the nation’s general government gross debt amounts to about 230% of its nominal GDP. Textbook theory ...

Please let us carry out this investment, without fail, to protect our lives and the lives of those who will live in the future.” ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko held a summit in Pyongyang on Thursday, where the two leaders signed a friendship treaty, North Korea’s state media KCNA ...

The runway where two pilots died in a collision between a jet and a fire truck reopened Thursday morning at New York’s LaGuardia Airport, which had been operating at limited capacity all week as ...

From beer and crisps to noodles, toys and cosmetics, companies – and consumers – across Asia are bracing for a crisis as the Iran war wreaks havoc on supply chains, plastics and oil supplies, upending ...

A seminar to develop overseas sales of Wajima-nuri lacquerware, which was badly hit by the Noto Peninsula Earthquake in 2024, was held Wednesday in the traditional craft’s birthplace of Wajima, ...

More than 10 branches were cut off of a 200-year-old Shidarezakura weeping willow cherry tree in Hita City, Oita Prefecture.