Despite a declared ceasefire, Palestinian families in northern Gaza describe relentless military pressure, expanding ...

Hundreds of Allied prisoners of war were held in Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the U.S. dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago ...

As of the end of November, 235 bear attacks had killed 13 people across Japan this year, both the highest figures since ...

Israel's move is criticised by 10 countries, which say the new registration rules for international NGOs are "restrictive" ...

Japan is accelerating a military buildup program designed to double annual arms spending. The country also is revising a ...

Henry Sakamoto survived the mass incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII, then went on to shape Oregon’s agricultural ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed his view that a presidential election cannot be held in territories temporarily occupied by Russia. At a news conference on Saturday, Zelenskyy ...

Japan’s life insurers left their hedging against the risk of a stronger yen near a 13-year low in the fiscal first half through end-September, according to a Bloomberg analysis of earnings reports.

Prudential produced a big third-quarter jump in earnings, with all of its businesses turning profits. The insurer’s bedrock U.S. businesses reported adjusted operating income before taxes of $1.15 ...

Billions of years ago, Earth’s atmosphere was hostile, with barely any oxygen and toxic conditions for life. Researchers from the Earth-Life Science Institute studied Japan’s iron-rich hot springs, ...

A pair of life insurers announced significant reinsurance deals this week with Japanese reinsurance companies. Billion-dollar reinsurance arrangements are part of the new life insurance industry ...