Shogi” fans have a new destination to flock to in the capital where they can play the traditional game and attend commentary ...

An in-house hospital team here has developed a language app for foreign patients to prevent delays in medical care and avoid miscommunication that could cause potentially disastrous mistakes.

Ukrainian Aonishiki is filled with gratitude toward his Japanese “family” who helped him to enter the sumo world, win his ...

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Typhoon No. 25 is expected to bring torrential rain to the Kanto-Koshin region on the afternoon of Sept. 21, and the Japan ...

A peek through the music industry’s curtain at the producers who harnessed social media to help their idols go global.

The first cases of damage from Typhoon No. 25 were reported on the afternoon of Sept. 21, including a mudslide that buried a woman in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, south of Tokyo.

TORONTO—French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday backed a proposal for Canada to become the European Union’s first associate member as he and Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney moved to deepen ...

The main Kremlin party retained its majority in Russia’s parliament, election officials said Monday, after a carefully orchestrated balloting that excluded most opposition candidates and helped the ...

WASHINGTON—When President Donald Trump first ran for office, he called out China as a menace to the U.S. economy, saying it had gutted America’s factories and eroded the middle class.

The government is considering using increased U.S. rice imports as a bargaining chip in its tariff talks with Washington, a plan certain to face opposition from politicians and farmers, sources said ...

Japan’s government on Aug. 7 officially launched a contentious debate on capping its foreign population as a high-level working group convened for the first time to hash out a future immigration ...