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

An Air Self-Defense Force training plane with two personnel aboard crashed into a large reservoir in central Japan shortly ...

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

Children in Japan continue to suffer poor mental health, with the country ranking 32nd among 43 developed and emerging ...

The United States and China on Wednesday slashed most of their recent new tariffs on each other's imports and suspended part ...

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

Kyodo News presents a bilingual podcast for English learners about the ins and outs of news writing in the World Services ...

Over-the-counter drugs will become available at convenience stores in Japan within two years, following the enactment of ...

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 ...

Around half of respondents to a survey believed at least one of 15 instances of false information on social media after ...

Walking out of the "Hanoi Hilton" prison a free man after six and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Douglas "Pete ...