A Beijing court on Wednesday sentenced a Japanese man to 3 years and six months in prison for spying, the Japanese Embassy in ...

Onosato suffered his first defeat as a yokozuna while his fellow grand champion Hoshoryu fell to a third straight defeat as a ...

Shohei Ohtani went 1-for-2 with a single and a run scored in his fifth All-Star appearance Tuesday as the National League ...

Removing restrictions that deny the wishes of those directly affected and updating Japan's marriage system to reflect ...

The DeNA BayStars on Wednesday announced the signing of former major league pitcher Shintaro Fujinami, who spent the last ...

Nara City Hall is facing an unusual situation, where early voting for the July 20 House of Councillors election has led to ...

A Japanese group offering support and counseling for people sexually exploited online has had some 67,000 explicit images and ...

Japan saw a record 21.5 million foreign visitors in the first half of 2025, government data showed Wednesday, with travel ...

In the 2017 lower house election, staff reported "blank ballots" in Koka, Shiga Prefecture, after a shortfall in ballots ...

TOKYO -- As Japan faces increasingly severe damage from intense rainfall brought on by a weather phenomenon called "linear ...

Typhoon Nari crossed the Hokkaido coast on Tuesday, making it the first landfall by a typhoon on Japan's northernmost main ...

The mayor of Nagasaki said Tuesday that a record 107 countries and regions, along with the European Union, have signaled ...