A week after Japan international basketball forward Rui Hachimura had some harsh words about the running of the national team ...

Prosecutors on Wednesday dropped their case against former Kenyan marathon runner and two-time Olympic medalist Eric Wainaina ...

Some people were seen perplexed in western Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture on Nov. 16, the first day five local bus and train ...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan surpassed 30 million in the period between January and October, marking the fastest ...

Japan's minority government accepted on Wednesday an opposition party's demand to raise the tax-free income threshold, paving ...

Former Hong Kong publisher Jimmy Lai denied in his landmark national security trial on Wednesday he had asked then U.S. Vice ...

No. 6 maegashira Takanosho upset new ozeki Onosato on Wednesday to remain in a three-way title race after 11 days of action ...

Parts of coastal southern China suspended ferry services as a major storm passed into the South China Sea, bringing high ...

A Japanese court on Wednesday ordered the government to pay damages to residents around Atsugi air base near Tokyo over ...

In academic 2024, students from high schools in Tokyo and three surrounding prefectures accounted for some three-quarters of ...

After living through the tumultuous Showa period (1926-1989), the entire Heisei (1989-2019) and into the current Reiwa era, ...

In Hokkaido, Hakodate City Tram's snowplow car called Sasara Densha had a test run on November 13 to prepare for the snowy ...