Two male high school students who allegedly stole cigarettes from a younger student and forced him to apologize naked on his ...

A batch of eight matsutake mushrooms grown in this west Japan city fetched 850,000 yen (approx. $5,574) during the first ...

OTSUKI, Yamanashi (Kyodo) -- Japan's surge in bear attacks has forced the government to relax rules on "emergency shootings" in populated areas, amid concerns over whether municipalities can secure ...

Japanese scientist Susumu Kitagawa and two others won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing porous ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto picked up the loss after surrendering three runs on six hits over four-plus innings as the Philadelphia ...

A Japanese man who was acquitted last year in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case filed a lawsuit Thursday seeking ...

Japan on Thursday said Israel and Hamas agreeing on the first phase of U.S. President Donald Trump's Gaza Strip peace plan ...

A new documentary about baseball connections between the United States and Japan delves into the sport's role acros ...

Japan's toy market is getting bigger, even though fewer children are being born. Old toys and characters from the Heisei era ...

Japan's Imperial Household Agency on Thursday released the official biography of the wife of Emperor Hirohito, posthumously ...

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SoftBank Group Corp. said Wednesday it will acquire the robotics business of Swiss industrial automation company ABB Ltd. for ...