FUKUOKA--Ozeki Kotozakura won his first Emperor’s Cup, besting fellow ozeki Hoshoryu on Nov. 24 on the final day of the ...

A stately avenue formed by gingko trees in Tokyo ’s leafy Meiji Jingu Gaien area is now lit up at night. The nighttime ...

Takeru Chiba saw greener pastures and a path to the professional ranks by heading overseas to play college soccer in the ...

During the off-season in 2017, Ohtani went to the United States, the home of baseball, to continue his “two-way” style of ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba met for the first time since taking office with families of Japanese nationals abducted by ...

Japan was set to go ahead with a memorial ceremony Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, despite South Korea’s last-minute ...

Yoichi Funabashi, the former editor in chief of The Asahi Shimbun, recently published a massive two-volume work that examines ...

Japan Post Co. announced it will release of a set of commemorative stamps featuring Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani ...

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for ...

MONTREAL—The Canadian suitor of Seven & i Holdings Co., parent of convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co., has ruled ...

United Nations climate talks adopted a deal to inject at least $300 billion annually in humanity’s fight against climate change, aimed at helping developing nations cope with the ravages of global ...

The dining service along Toyohashi Rail Road Co.’s Shinai Line is named Odensha, blending the words “oden” and “densha” ...