NICE, France – England first wore Japan down then scored a bizarre try and rolled to a 34-12 win and a second straight victory at the Rugby World Cup on Sunday.

NISHINOMIYA – Teruaki Sato homered for the second straight game as the Hanshin Tigers beat the Yomiuri Giants 4-3 Thursday to clinch their first Central League title in 18 years and sixth overall.

TOKYO – Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida has picked a woman as foreign minister and appointed as defense minister a politician who has worked to build ties with Taiwan in Wednesday’s new cabinet line-up.

SEOUL – North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern seas Wednesday, its neighbors said.

MANILA, Philippines — A majority of chief executive officers (CEOs) expect their companies’ revenues to be higher than pre-pandemic levels, a survey of the Management Association of the Philippines (MAP) and PwC Philippines showed.

NEW DELHI – The Group of 20 leaders ended their two-day summit on Sunday, with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida stressing that he has secured the understanding of other nations on the safety of the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant.

JAKARTA – Japan and China on Wednesday traded barbs over Beijing’s ban on all of Japanese seafood imports following the release of treated radioactive water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant into the sea, with Prime Minister Fumio Kishida criticizing the neighboring country’s negative reaction to the discharge as “conspicuous.”

MANILA, Philippines — Market manipulation prompted the government to intervene and impose a price ceiling on rice to control the spike in prices, President Marcos said yesterday, as he committed financial aid for retailers that would suffer losses due to the price cap.

TOKYO – The Japanese government is considering pursuing a court order to disband the contentious Unification Church, which has been at the center of a political scandal since the killing of former Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022, a government source said Sunday.

TOKYO – This week Japan marks 100 years since the Great Kanto Earthquake that killed 105,000 people. Less well known is the subsequent massacre of thousands of ethnic Koreans that haunts the community to this day.