One person was killed and 10 remained unaccounted for Saturday after heavy rainfall in Noto, a central Japan region that was ...

Panicking, the woman withdrew her savings and used it to buy a 1.3-kilogram gold bar then worth about 17.7 million yen ...

Many couples in Japan are giving up on having their ideal number of children, including those who are hesitant to have ...

The next edition of this puzzle, "Meet your match? Spot the difference #126," will be published on Sept. 29. Click/tap here ...

Major Japanese convenience store operator Lawson Inc., telecommunications giant KDDI Corp. and Lawson's parent company ...

The leaders of Australia, India, Japan and the United States agreed Saturday to expand cooperation on maritime securit ...

The woodblocks of a massive trove of precious documents compiled by an Edo-period (1603-1867) scholar have been preserved in ...

Retired former ozeki Takakeisho said Saturday he could not steel himself to get back in the ring after dealing with nagging ...

The Naha District Public Prosecutors Office on Sept. 20 indicted a U.S. Marine on a charge of sexually assaulting and ...

Shohei Ohtani had a home run and stolen base each to move up to 52-52 for the season Friday as the Los Angeles Dodgers beat ...

One person was killed, and more than 10 people are missing after unprecedented rainfall Saturday in Noto, the region in ...

With a ruling in the retrial of a high-profile 1966 quadruple murder case in Japan set to be given Thursday, calls are ...