OSAKA--Osaka's annual winter tradition, the Festival of Lights 2024, is drawing visitors to the city center to marvel at the ...

NAGOYA—A close aide to former Nagoya Mayor Takashi Kawamura was elected his successor despite public outrage over derogatory ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba, who only recently formed his second Cabinet to lead a minority government following a Lower ...

Negotiators gathered in Busan, South Korea, on Monday in a final push to create a treaty to address the global crisis of ...

TAIPEI--Taiwanese fighter jets will welcome back a flight carrying the island’s baseball team after their victory at an ...

Yoichi Funabashi, the former editor in chief of The Asahi Shimbun, recently published a massive two-volume work that examines ...

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for ...

Takeru Chiba saw greener pastures and a path to the professional ranks by heading overseas to play college soccer in the ...

A growing number of rental properties in the Tokyo metropolitan area are available fully furnished and fitted with electronic ...

During the off-season in 2017, Ohtani went to the United States, the home of baseball, to continue his “two-way” style of ...

ITO, Shizuoka Prefecture--Though kitschy and chaotic, a museum in the theme park at an onsen resort here offers a ...

Japan Post Co. announced it will release of a set of commemorative stamps featuring Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani ...