Over the past year and a half or so, Japan has held three national elections, and after each result a familiar postmortem has ...

The yen briefly surged Wednesday to the lower 155 zone, hitting a level unseen since late February, amid market speculation ...

Manjiro became close to Captain William H. Whitfield of the American whaling ship that rescued him from drifting, then lived ...

A bus crashed into a guardrail on an expressway in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima on Wednesday, killing a teenager ...

An Ezo red fox is raising its cubs on an embankment near a residential area in the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido. The six young ...

Footage obtained by The Associated Press of a cruise ship at the center of a rare-virus outbreak shows deserted decks and ga ...

Toronto Blue Jays rookie Kazuma Okamoto hit his 10th home run of the season in a 4-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese startup plans to send a spherical robot inspired by Haro from the classic anime series "Mobile ...

Japan and the Philippines agreed Tuesday to establish a framework for working-level talks on the export of used destroyers to ...

Japan's Osaka Gas Co. has conducted a demonstration experiment to convert used bioplastic bento containers into energy, as ...

Garments designed by Japanese artist Tamae Hirokawa, who is known for creating seamless knitwear based on the concept of ...

President Donald Trump said on Tuesday evening that he is pausing the U.S. effort to guide stranded vessels out of ...