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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Shohei Ohtani launches his second home run of the season as the Los Angeles Dodgers held on for a 5-4 win in their home ...