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

Honda Motor Co. will freeze its plan to build an electric vehicle factory in Canada due to slow U.S. demand for such cars, ...

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

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

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

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

As the wild vegetable foraging season arrives across Japan, there has been a string of food poisoning cases from toxic plants ...

Nissan Motor Co. is planning to cut 900 jobs across Europe, or about 10 percent of its regional workforce, and review some of ...

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.