With Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Japan's potential involvement in a Taiwan emergency sparking tensions with ...

Eri Igarashi, a House of Representatives member of the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan (CDP), gave birth to her ...

Japan aims to reduce clothes waste by 25 percent by fiscal 2030 compared with 10 years before to address the environmental ...

Stuffed toys of the popular Osaka Expo mascot are cheering up children fighting illness at a hospital in this western Japan ...

Japanese right-hander Tatsuya Imai has agreed to a three-year, $54 million deal with the Houston Astros, MLB.com reported ...

A 23-year-old Nepalese man here is gaining Japanese language skills through interactions with locals while helping revitalize ...

On Furumachi-dori street, once the bustling center of the city of Niigata, there is a large piece of street art depicting a ...

A Ukrainian drone strike killed 24 people and wounded at least 50 more as they celebrated the New Year in a Russian-occupied ...

About 40 people were killed and another 115 injured, most of them seriously, after a fire ripped through a bar's Ne ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's daughter, believed to be called Ju Ae, has been shown visiting a state mausoleum for the ...

ROME (AP) -- Pope Leo XIV opened 2026 on Thursday with a plea for peace, singling out in particular countries "bloodied by ...

Becoming yokozuna and winning half of the six grand sumo tournaments in 2025 for the most successful year of his young career ...