Yokozuna Hoshoryu fell to No. 2 maegashira Abi for his second successive defeat at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament as ...

Japan's health ministry is set to eliminate out-of-pocket payments associated with child delivery, possibly from April next ...

A Japan Air Self-Defense Force training plane crashed shortly after taking off from a base in central Japan, the government ...

A bag containing an inflammable signal flame tube fell from a U.S. military helicopter over the Motobu peninsula in northern ...

A former kindergarten employee has been arrested for allegedly secretly taking nude videos of boys in the changeroom of a ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers said Tuesday they have placed rookie Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki on the 15-day injured list with a ...

The United States and China said Monday they have agreed to slash most of their recent new tariffs on each other's imports ...

Official campaigning kicked off in South Korea for next month's election to choose the successor to ousted President Yoon Suk ...

A 15-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly stabbing an elderly woman to death on a street in Chiba, near Tokyo, the ...

The United States and China on Saturday made "great progress" in high-level trade talks after discussing many issues in a ...

A Chinese research vessel was seen lowering a pipe-like object into the sea within Japan's exclusive economic zone on Sunday, ...

The Tokyo government has begun work to redevelop a two-kilometer expressway which encircles the capital's Ginza shopping ...