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

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

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

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

Venezuela is open to negotiating an agreement with the United States to combat drug trafficking, the South American country ...

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

Japan defender Tomoya Ando has joined St. Pauli in the German Bundesliga from J-League first-division side Avispa Fukuoka, ...

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

Japan Post Holdings Co. is considering merging 10 to 20 percent of its roughly 3,000 nationwide mail and parcel collection ...

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

Widening demonstrations sparked by Iran's ailing economy spread Thursday into the Islamic Republic's rural provinc ...