Japanese skaters Kaori Sakamoto and Yuma Kagiyama took the early leads at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating's NHK Trophy ...

The U.S. Navy has apparently begun deploying its variant of the Osprey aircraft in a western Japan city, a source close to ...

The 19th Refugee Film Festival opened at a movie theater in Tokyo's Roppongi district Thursday, with one of the festival’s ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the smaller opposition Democratic Party for the People begin discussions to find ...

A 44-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly selling illegal drugs to former Olympus Corp. CEO Stefan Kaufmann, police ...

A total of 34 passengers on two flights carrying a group of high school students from Guam to Japan fall ill with symptoms of ...

Tohoku University becomes the first institution formally designated to receive substantial research grants from a 10 trillion ...

Donald Trump's comeback as U.S. president is likely to lift Tokyo stocks into early next year, with his proposed tax cuts and ...

Yokozuna Terunofuji has withdrawn from the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament opening Nov. 10, marking his absence from two ...

Japanese comedian and TV personality Hitoshi Matsumoto dropped a 550 million yen ($3.6 million) lawsuit against publisher ...

The Japanese government will start providing support for private companies to ramp up the development of geothermal power plants, tapping into the country's geothermal resources, the third largest in ...

The operator of the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power complex says it has successfully retrieved a small amount of ...