No. 1 maegashira Oho handed his long-time rival and yokozuna Hoshoryu his first defeat at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament as ...

Japanese novel "Butter" by Asako Yuzuki has won the debut fiction section at the 2025 British Book Awards, its Japanese ...

Japanese electronics firm Sharp Corp. said Monday it will sell a liquid crystal display panel plant in central Japan, once ...

Japan is seeing a boom in gold investment amid heightening concerns over a global economic slowdown caused by U.S. President ...

Walking out of the "Hanoi Hilton" prison a free man after six and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Douglas "Pete ...

A 14th-century, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to a Japanese temple on Monday, ending a ...

Japan's health insurance system, praised globally for supporting one of the world's longest-lived populaces, ensures medical ...

Lone yokozuna Hoshoryu made a confident start Sunday at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with a push-out victory against ...

In the balloting to choose the next pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost secured 105 of 133 votes to become the new leader of the ...

A Chinese research vessel was seen lowering a pipe-like object into the sea within Japan's exclusive economic zone on Sunday, ...

Struggling Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. plans to cut around 20,000 jobs globally, more than 10,000 above the reduction ...

India and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, they said Saturday, following a sharp escalation of the conflict ...