Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako hosted a tea reception for African leaders and their spouses at the Imperial Palace on ...

Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23, defeating Tokyo ...

BEIJING--The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and ...

Billed as “forever 17,” Hitomi Shiga is a legend in maid cafe culture in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. While dressing up in a ...

A historical novel published privately by a distant descendant of the Koka ninja clan has proved to be an unexpected hit ...

A minicar covered in graffiti, a weather beaten sports car looking naked without tires and an automobile that appears to have ...

NAGASAKI--A hospital here has digitized the medical records of more than 50,000 people who survived the atomic bombing of the ...

OSAKA—Visitors stranded in the sweltering heat at the Osaka Kansai Expo venue lashed out at organizers, saying they failed to ...

Yu Darvish combined with three relievers on a three-hitter, and the San Diego Padres pulled even with the Los Angeles Dodgers ...

While the family lived apart, Japan attacked the U.S. military base and airfields at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii in December 1941.

South Korean President Lee Jae Myung held his first full summit with Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba in Tokyo in a ...

MANILA--Two Japanese men shot to death in the Philippines' capital here were targeted by a Japanese acquaintance who staged ...