As schools across Japan conduct annual health checkups, some parents are questioning whether students really need to undergo ...

Japan's food delivery industry is at a crossroads as intensifying competition and rising prices squeeze profits, forcing some ...

LONDON (Kyodo) -- An official store selling plastic model kits from Japan's robot anime "Mobile Suit Gundam" series opened ...

KOBE -- In the first application round for a new "forest burial cemetery" by the Kobe Municipal Government, the city received ...

Ogasawara greenfinch chicks, an endangered bird found only in the Japanese capital's Ogasawara Islands, were born from pairs ...

A bill that could cut 45 seats from Japan's House of Representatives would disproportionately reduce female lawmaker numbers, ...

Japan's former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka dispatched Australian opponent Daria Kasatkina 6-1, 6-3 in just 65 minutes on Friday ...

Shohei Ohtani struck out nine over six quality innings but made an early exit from the Los Angeles Dodgers batting lineup ...

Iran prepared Friday for the dayslong funeral of the late Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, with banners across Tehran ...

Toronto Blue Jays third baseman Kazuma Okamoto has been named the American League Rookie of the Month for June, Major League ...

Japanese companies agreed to raise wages by an average 5.01 percent in this year's spring wage negotiations, marking the ...

China on Friday warned against a Japan-India agreement earlier this week to deepen cooperation on economic security, saying ...