Britain moved on July 17 to lower the voting age by two years to 16 in all U.K. elections, a major overhaul of the country’s democratic system that was welcomed by 16- and 17-year-olds interviewed by ...

Microsoft is teaming up with the French government to create a digital replica of Paris’s Notre Dame Cathedral, France’s most visited monument, the U.S. tech company’s president, Brad Smith, said on ...

Time and memory often feel like tricksters. From my quiet room in Santiago, Chile — slowly becoming a nest — I look out the window, and my thoughts drift to rooms I’ve lived in before, to lives that ...

Tokyo is a leading market for tech talent alongside Beijing, the San Francisco Bay Area, Bengaluru, Paris, New York and Dublin, according to a new report, “Global Tech Markets: Top Talent Locations ...

There’s no such thing as a free lunch. What about free water? In Japan, customers may not give much thought to the iced water served free at restaurants and casual eateries. If you’re used to this, ...

The Japan Football Association is planning to join a bid to host the 2046 FIFA World Cup. If the bid is successful, Japan will host World Cup matches for the first time since the country co-hosted the ...

Nora： Finn, do you know the whereabouts of those pruning shears that grandpa ...

A Beijing district court on July 16 sentenced a Japanese employee of Astellas Pharma to three years and six months in prison for espionage. The employee, who is in his 60s, was detained by Chinese ...

There are people who are good at English and there are people who are really, really good. YouTuber Daijiro belongs to the latter category. “Since my first year at junior high, I’ve consistently ...

Artificial intelligence services are increasingly popular among people in Japan as a way to learn languages, a December survey showed. The number of people using such tools increased by more than 80% ...

Psychological thriller Severance from Apple TV+ and HBO’s crime drama The Penguin stacked up the most nominations for Emmy Awards on July 15, outpacing The Studio and The White Lotus in the contest ...

Police in Saitama Prefecture have found tens of millions of yen in cash at the home of the wife of the now-defunct Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult’s founder Chizuo Matsumoto, who went by the name Shoko ...