A private funeral was held Sunday in Tokyo for Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, with former Yomiuri Giants ...

Soon after a powerful earthquake devastated Japan's Noto Peninsula on New Year's Day 2024, councilor Tsuyoshi Yamahana heard ...

The government plans to launch a new registration system to encourage people to keep strong connections with rural areas hit ...

Japan and the United States have yet to find common ground on tariff issues but still aim to strike a deal of some sort in ...

A lawmaker of Japan's main opposition party said Saturday that government rice reserves recently put on sale are mostly ...

Japan and the European Union are preparing to launch an "alliance" framework to beef up their companies' competitiveness by ...

Junto Nakatani took a big step toward a potential future showdown with Naoya "Monster" Inoue by defeating Ryosuke Nishida in their bantamweight title unification bout Sunday.

Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo Inc. will retire its set of original emoji whose release 26 years ago helped shape the ...

Japanese golfer Mao Saigo scored a rare albatross Saturday on her way to a 6-under-par 65 that will see her tee off the final ...

Japan's Princess Kako, a niece of Emperor Naruhito, visited a nursing home near Sao Paulo on Saturday to interact with locals ...

A unique monster character "Labubu," a rabbit-like plush toy of Chinese maker Pop Mart, has proved to be a global hit, with ...

Japan brushed aside Taiwan 95-42 in a women's basketball exhibition game on Saturday, the team's first outing under new head ...