Major League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani has emerged as the most featured celebrity in textbooks that have passed education ...

The temperature outside was below freezing in this city northwest of Tokyo as local residents stirred early on a February m ...

A superintendent at Hyogo Prefectural Police concealed that he had lost a pair of handcuffs for 12 years, and revealed the ...

A university student has been rescued after falling ill on Mt. Fuji, police said Sunday, the second time in one week that a ...

Tokyo stocks rose Monday morning, lifted by buying as concerns about tariffs imposed by the United States receded.

Two female Japanese ballet dancers placed first in their age groups at a major international youth competition in the United ...

Two breweries in central Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture have joined forces to brew and begin selling a duo of hard-hitting beers ...

Mao Saigo of Japan won the Chevron Championship on Sunday for her first major title, making a 3-foot birdie putt on the f ...

North Korea on Monday confirmed for the first time that it has sent troops to Russia to support its war against Ukraine.

Tokyo stocks opened higher Monday after gains on Wall Street late last week as optimism grew that trade tensions between the ...

There was no president. There was no comedian. What remained at the White House Correspondents' Association's annual dinner ...

South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party on Sunday picked former party leader Lee Jae Myung as its candidate in the ...