Kenya Wakatsuki hit a walk-off double to give the Orix Buffaloes a 3-2 victory over the Rakuten Eagles as Nippon Professional ...

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck central Myanmar, killing at least 20 people and causing buildings to collapse, according to ...

Wildfires in Okayama Prefecture in western Japan have been contained five days after their outbreak, with evacuation orders ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency says it will launch its official YouTube channel next month to showcase the activities of ...

Multiple examinees who took a Japanese language test for non-native speakers in December submitted papers deemed ungradable, ...

Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui will join a long-term mission at the International Space Station possibly in July on a journey ...

A former ruling party lawmaker received a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence, suspended for five years, for defrauding the ...

Toyota Motor Corp. says its global production rose 5.8 percent in February from a year earlier to 779,790 vehicles as it ...

The U.S. government's plan to impose an additional 25 percent tariff on auto imports will have an "extremely large impact" on ...

Former world champion and two-time Olympic medalist Shoma Uno is aiming for new heights in figure skating as the producer of ...

Japanese figure skating pair Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara clinches gold at the world championships in Boston, recapturing ...

Prices of rice in Tokyo jumped around 90 percent in March from a year earlier, with the government's recent release of ...