Takeru Chiba saw greener pastures and a path to the professional ranks by heading overseas to play college soccer in the ...

During the off-season in 2017, Ohtani went to the United States, the home of baseball, to continue his “two-way” style of ...

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for ...

Yoichi Funabashi, the former editor in chief of The Asahi Shimbun, recently published a massive two-volume work that examines ...

Japan was set to go ahead with a memorial ceremony Sunday near the Sado Island Gold Mines, despite South Korea’s last-minute ...

Japan Post Co. announced it will release of a set of commemorative stamps featuring Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani ...

The dining service along Toyohashi Rail Road Co.’s Shinai Line is named Odensha, blending the words “oden” and “densha” ...

KOBE—Motohiko Saito emerged from scandal and won re-election as Hyogo governor in a poll called after he was forced to vacate ...

The economic stimulus package compiled by the government is another unnecessary spending spree that prioritizes political ...

KYOTO--Kiyomizudera temple here, a UNESCO World Heritage site, has kicked off its special autumn nighttime viewing, ...

MONTREAL—The Canadian suitor of Seven & i Holdings Co., parent of convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co., has ruled ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which ...