A film festival to support reconstruction from the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes kicked off Saturday, with film director Isao Y ...

Shogi player Tomoka Nishiyama on Saturday became the first woman eligible to join the game's main professional ...

Two men died and more than a dozen others were injured Saturday when floats overturned during annual festivals in Osaka Prefecture.

Children should be careful not to spend too much time sitting, with a Japanese health ministry research team warning that ...

KDDI Corp. and Japan Post Co. recently held a trial using a post office in a central Japan city as a hub to deploy aerial ...

President Donald Trump veered far from midterm election politics during a rally in upstate New York on Friday, aiming a ...

The family of a 19-year-old worker who died after falling from a transmission tower in western Japan said Saturday it will ...

Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku on Friday vowed to thrill Thai fans when the sport's governing body holds an ...

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te called during an address Saturday for the strengthening of the island's defense capabilities, ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering meeting Vietnamese President To Lam in Tokyo early next month to ...

A 1993 scientific paper by researchers at Ehime University in western Japan on the global spread of persistent organic ...

The decision to award this year's Nobel Peace Prize to veteran jurist Navi Pillay has exposed the vast gulf between Israel ...