Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi announced Tuesday that she will reshuffle her ruling Liberal Democratic Party's executives on Wednesday and her cabinet on Thursday, LDP Secretary General Shunichi Suzuki ...

Alexander Zverev's best year in tennis goes on, and so does that lengthy Grand Slam drought for American men. Zverev won his second major championship and disappointed a crowd that was desperate to ...

Genta Koja, the candidate backed by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's ruling coalition, is set to win Sunday's Okinawa gubernatorial election, defeating incumbent Denny Tamaki, Kyodo News projections ...

A Japanese court upheld a lower court's rejection of a 95-year-old Japanese-Filipino woman's bid for Japanese nationality, more than eight decades after she was left behind in the Philippines after ...

Tomokazu Harimoto and his younger sister Miwa have followed in their parents' footsteps by becoming professional table tennis players -- but took their own path by representing Japan instead of rivals ...

Yamanashi Prefecture said Monday it will start charging climbers for rescue operations by its disaster prevention helicopter on Mount Fuji during the normally closed season if they fail to submit ...

A ruling bloc-backed newcomer may have beaten the incumbent opposed to a longstanding U.S. military base relocation plan in Sunday's Okinawa gubernatorial election, but Japan's government will need to ...

A newly installed memorial statue of slain conservative activist ‌Charlie Kirk was vandalized overnight in Phoenix on Sunday, according to the organization that he founded. The statue was ‌defaced ...

Comedy star Chris Rock has returned to directing after a decade-long pause by making a drama but said that does not hint at a future filled with darker work. "I'm always going to be a comedian," Rock ...

Professor Shunji Suzuki, director of the Institute of Enology and Viticulture at the University of Yamanashi. The university and its partners are testing a paper-and-plastic wine bottle as an ...

Police in Shibetsu, Hokkaido, have arrested a 65-year-old man on suspicion of assault after he kicked his eldest daughter in the head. According to police, the incident occurred at around 11:30 p.m.

Pop superstar Lady Gaga welcomed her first child with fiance Michael Polansky, U.S. media reported Friday. The 40-year-old "Bad Romance" singer, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, began dating ...