Tokyo, March 30 (Jiji Press)--A candidate backed by the Japanese Communist Party and the Social Democratic Party beat the incumbent in the mayoral election in the city of Kiyose in western Tokyo on ...

The internet’s favorite monkey might have gotten his fairytale ending. Punch — the baby macaque at Ichikawa City Zoo in Japan that went viral for seeking comfort in a plush toy after his mother ...

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The governing party of Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi secured a two-thirds supermajority in a key parliamentary election on Sunday (February 8, 2026), Japanese media reported, citing preliminary ...

Punch, the baby macaque who shot to global fame for clutching an orange plush toy, has reportedly found a companion at Japan's Ichikawa City Zoo. Footage from earlier this month shows the young monkey ...

Gearoid Reidy is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering Japan and the Koreas. He previously led the breaking news team in North Asia, and was the Tokyo deputy bureau chief. A platform that so often ...

On July 8, 1989, a young music fan named Aadam Jacobs, with a compact Sony cassette recorder in his pocket, went to see an up ...

Well, today he opened up his mouth in front of Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to tell a "joke" about Pearl Harbor that basically sent one giant cringe across the whole internet. Bloomberg / ...

A documentary film of Bad Bunny's first concert in Asia will be available to stream on Spotify starting April 8.

Jake Shane was one of three influencers that Vanity Fair hired to cover the carpet at its Oscar party, the first such bash thrown under its new editor Mark Guiducci. It cannot have gone how Guiducci ...