Major convenience store chains FamilyMart, Lawson and 7-Eleven are set to begin selling reserve rice released by the Japanese ...

A mechanism by which pancreatic cancer, known as a difficult-to-treat form of cancer, becomes malignant has been uncovered by ...

South Korea's newly elected liberal president, Lee Jae Myung, is likely to pursue stable ties with Japan at least early in ...

Four-division world boxing champion Kosei Tanaka of Japan announced his retirement Wednesday, citing issues with his eyes.

Preparation for the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament in July began Wednesday at the newly built IG Arena, one of the biggest ...

China tightened security on Wednesday, the 36th anniversary of the 1989 military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters in ...

Shigeo Nagashima, former player and manager of Japan's Yomiuri Giants professional baseball team, has died aged 89. The ...

This southwest Japan city was filled with somber prayers June 3 to commemorate the victims of the major pyroclastic flow on ...

Former Yomiuri Giant and New York Yankee Hideki Matsui visited the home of Shigeo Nagashima on Wednesday to offer condolences ...

Details of financial damage claimed by an educational corporation in Tokyo that sued 10 people including a former student for ...

The U.S. government has temporarily suspended new interview appointments for three types of visas at its diplomatic missions ...

Japan on Wednesday enacted a revised law requiring all companies to adopt protective measures against overbearing or abusive ...