A total of 22 basketball teams have been approved as the first batch of franchises to join Japan's new top-tier B-League ...

Defense ministers of Japan and three other Indo-Pacific countries join their NATO counterparts for the first time in Brussels ...

Toshiyuki Nishida, a prizewinning Japanese actor known for his unpretentious performances in numerous smash hit TV dramas and ...

Students of a Japanese school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen and their parents are still haunted by the fatal ...

The U.S. dollar briefly tops 150 yen for the first time since early August on Thursday, as the European Central Bank's rate ...

Rieko Nakagawa, author of the long-selling picture book series featuring twin mice "Guri and Gura," has died, the publisher ...

Japan reaches the men's team sprint podium for the first time at the track cycling world championships by beating Britain in ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba pledges to bring back Japanese nationals abducted by North Korea decades ago, but his plan to ...

Shohei Ohtani blasts a towering three-run homer in the eighth inning as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the New York Mets 8-0 ...

Police officers in Japan will wear body cameras on a trial basis to record questioning in public spaces, according to the ...

Japan confirms the season's first avian influenza outbreak, with authorities identifying around 19,000 birds for culling at a ...

Japan is heading to a pivotal 465-seat House of Representatives election on Oct. 27, with the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ...