A total of 348 recruits who joined the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force in April completed about five months of basic training in Maizuru and departed for units across Japan after a graduation ceremony. (News On Japan)

Bear sightings are increasing across Japan this summer as a shortage of food in the mountains drives the animals closer to areas where people live and visit, with authorities in Aomori Prefecture closing a lookout near Lake Towada after a foreign tourist was attacked. (News On Japan)

Tokyo stocks slipped on August 27, with the Nikkei 225 closing at 66,131.98, down 130.18 points, as early buying in artificial intelligence and semiconductor-related shares following Nvidia’s strong earnings forecast faded into profit-taking, while the broader TOPIX edged higher for a sixth straight session. (News On Japan)

One suspect was arrested after the incident in Caen, police said, following a reported fight at a nearby bar.

Many communities are living in fear of being kidnapped for ransom as the crisis spreads further south.

On Saturday, Iceland will vote on EU membership talks, amid economic and geopolitical tensions.

Rahul Gandhi's comments renew the debate over gender disparity in reactions to insults hurled at PM Narendra Modi.

Experts have hailed the drug, daraxonrasib, as a game changer for one of the world's deadliest cancers.

Experts have hailed the drug, daraxonrasib, as a game changer for one of the world's deadliest cancers.

Yayoi Kusama, the Japanese avant-garde artist whose obsessive dots, nets, pumpkins and mirrored rooms grew from intensely personal visions into some of the most recognizable images in contemporary art, died at a hospital in Tokyo on August 14, 2026, at the age of 97. Her death was announced on August 27 by companies representing the artist, which said she continued painting until her final days. (News On Japan)

A 50-year-old Thai suspect was arrested with the eggs in a "homemade incubator" carried as hand luggage.