Yoshihide Suga, expected to become Japan's prime minister this week, hails from Akita prefecture in the north, which leads ...

Human remains found in Japan have been identified as those of a 6-year-old girl missing since the massive earthquake and tsunami of 2011, police said Friday. The disaster killed 15,900 people, with ...

TOKYO :Japan's wholesale prices rose 2.7 per cent in the year to September, data showed on Friday, holding steady from the previous month in a sign of persistent cost pressure that will likely keep ...

Objective To characterise and quantify the mortality risks for a range of causes after tropical cyclones in nine countries ...

Note: Real effective exchange rates are assumed to remain constant at the levels prevailing during October 14-November 11, 2019. Economies are listed on the basis of economic size. The aggregated ...

Forest bathing emerged in Japan in the 1980s as a physiological and psychological exercise called shinrin-yoku, meaning “forest bathing” or “taking in the forest atmosphere.” Now this type of walking ...

For a generative artificial intelligence system to learn how to write an autopsy report, human workers must sort and annotate thousands of crime scene images. The precarious work of training AI, which ...

The Signing Ceremony and the High-Level Conference of the United Nations Convention against Cybercrime (Hanoi Convention) ...

A human skull found in rural Gering, Nebraska, could belong to a man who went missing over six years ago. Wyoming man Chance Englebert, 25 years old at the time of his disappearance, vanished while ...

Pollution-related deaths numbered 1.67 million in 2019, according to a new report led by Boston College researchers. Economic losses were in the billions. Pollution takes many forms in India, ...

Alabama now has economic development offices inside its three biggest international trade partners. The state’s Department of Commerce Thursday announced it has hired two international advisory firms ...

SENDAI—Human remains discovered by a construction company in 2023 have been identified as a child who was swept away in the 2011 tsunami, Miyagi prefectural police said on Oct. 9. The confirmation ...