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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which ...