China retaliates against US President Donald Trump's doubled tariffs. Japan battles biggest forest fire in decades. Rescuers ...

Japan’s worst wildfire in 50 years has left thousands of wild and domestic animals trapped in a blazing inferno, with few routes to escape the flames. From deer and monkeys to birds and smaller forest ...

Japan’s worst wildfire in 50 years has left thousands of wild and domestic animals trapped in a blazing inferno, with few routes to escape the flames. From deer and monkeys to birds and smaller forest ...

The Japanese government, through its embassy in Manila, is donating two units of rescue boats to the province of Ilocos Norte ...

Rescue workers in Japan say it could be three months before they recover a body of a truck driver whose vehicle has been stuck in a giant sinkhole for more than two weeks. The truck plunged into ...

More and more foreign visitors have been getting lost, buried in avalanches and facing other trouble while skiing or ...

(AP pic) A truck cabin swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan has been found in a sewer pipe and may contain the body of its missing driver, a fire department official said on Wednesday. Rescuers have ...

Hirotaka Saito, 54, the head of a canine rescue association called Wansfree in Yaizu, Shizuoka Prefecture, takes in and cares ...

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Researchers in Japan have created a drone using a silkworm moth antenna that can track scents, an innovation that could aid ...

Zheng Zeguang addresses a reception for the families of the Lisbon Maru survivors in London, Britain, on Feb. 22, 2025. The ...

A truck cabin that was swallowed by a sinkhole in Japan two weeks ago has been located in a nearby sewer pipe, authorities say. Drone images suggest that a human body is inside the cabin, but it is ...