The 41-year-old, in winning form as she prepared for an age-defying Olympic comeback, lost her balance and crashed into the side netting, with her airbag inflating.

The world No. 1 outlasted the German third seed 6-4, 7-6 (5), 6-7 (3), 6-7 (4), 7-5 over a titanic 5 hours, 27 minutes in hot conditions.

CEO Kentaro Okuda is seeking to extend the momentum that led to record profit last year, as financial firms compete to capitalize on Japan’s market swings and investing boom.

U.S. President Donald Trump talks about Greenland as a strategic asset that could be bought by Washington, while Denmark ...

The total was up 11.7% from a year earlier and comes amid an acute labor shortage in the rapidly aging country.

Pay hikes have yet to catch up with inflation in Japan, with real wages extending their losing streak to 11 months as of November.

The arrest marked the first crackdown in the country on cases involving soliciting customers to restaurants and pubs through ...

China's coast guard patrolled Japan-administered islands in the East China Sea almost daily last year, it said on Friday, aiming to secure its sovereignty over the remote, rocky outpost and to deter ...

The alarm that sounded at the Kashiwazaki-Kariwa nuclear plant last week was probably a false alarm, according to an academic ...

Inflation in Tokyo slowed to 2% year-on-year in January from 2.3% in the previous month, hitting the lowest level since ...

From the Liberal Democratic Party securing a majority on its own to the prime minister stepping down, a number of scenarios are at play ahead of the Feb. 8 Lower House election.

U.S. border czar Tom Homan said he would reduce the 3,000-strong force of agents deployed to the city if he received 'cooperation' from state and local leaders.