The Empress Emerita broke her right thigh bone in October last year, but has recovered to almost the same condition as before ...

During the Los Angeles Dodgers’ October rampage to the NL pennant, the defending World Series champions have actually been ...

Liberal Democratic Party President Sanae Takaichi and Japan Innovation Party leader Hirofumi Yoshimura will agree to form a ...

Candidates opposing Ito Mayor Maki Takubo dominated the 20-seat assembly of the central Japan city in a closely watched ...

Born in Greece and raised in Ireland, author Lafcadio Hearn, known for such ghost stories as “Miminashi Hoichi” (Hoichi the ...

The Tokyo Metro has temporarily suspended service between Yoyogi-Uehara and Kasumigaseki stations on the Chiyoda Line.

HONG KONG (AP) — A cargo aircraft skidded off a Hong Kong runway into the sea when landing early Monday, killing two people.

Japan’s Nikkei surged on Monday after political negotiations appeared to put fiscal expansionist Sanae Takaichi on a clearer ...

In a minutes-long strike Sunday inside the world’s most-visited museum, thieves rode a basket lift up the Louvre ’s facade, ...

Chestnut tiger butterflies have arrived in the yard of a former elementary school in Maizuru, Kyoto Prefecture.

Juryo sumo wrestler Kotoeiho demonstrated his signature “shiko” foot stomping at the Grand Sumo Tournament in London, drawing ...

The Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters beat the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks 7-1 on Sunday at Mizuho PayPay Dome in Fukuoka to tie the ...