Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party has proposed electing a successor to outgoing Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at the ...

A male student at a Japanese school in Shenzhen in China's Guangdong Province has been attacked by a man and then taken to ...

Shohei Ohtani moves closer to Major League Baseball's first 50-homer, 50-steal season by hitting his 48th home run in the Los ...

North Korea launched suspected ballistic missiles Wednesday, the Japanese government said. The projectiles are believed to ...

Albania international Jasir Asani powers Gwangju FC's 7-3 demolition of Japan's Yokohama F Marinos with a hat-trick as Asia's ...

One feared consequence of Japan's lowering of the age of adulthood to 18 in 2022 appears to have come true -- a rise in young ...

Japanese home appliances manufacturer Sharp Corp. on Tuesday unveiled a prototype of its first electric vehicle "LDK+," a ...

Kyodo News presents a bilingual podcast for English learners about the ins and outs of news writing in the World Services ...

An urban redevelopment project near Osaka's main transportation hub has reached its final stage, with expectations high that ...

A record 62.6 percent of respondents reported not reading a single book per month, making up the majority for the first time, ...

Slow and steady won the race Tuesday when Onosato foiled fellow sekiwake Kirishima's tricky opening and forced him over the straw bales to take a two-win lead on the 10th day of the Autumn Grand Sumo ...

Chicago Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga wins his fifth consecutive start, striking out an MLB career-high 11 in six solid ...