Shogi player Tomoka Nishiyama on Saturday became the first woman eligible to join the game's main professional ...

Children should be careful not to spend too much time sitting, with a Japanese health ministry research team warning that ...

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te called during an address Saturday for the strengthening of the island's defense capabilities, ...

The decision to award this year's Nobel Peace Prize to veteran jurist Navi Pillay has exposed the vast gulf between Israel ...

JR Kyushu's train lines were fully restored Saturday for the first time in 74 days following a devastating July 28 earthqua ...

The family of a 19-year-old worker who died after falling from a transmission tower in western Japan said Saturday it will ...

Japan has asked Russia to provide information following the death of a worker at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk from ...

What did farm minister Kazuo Yana say at a May gathering of ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) members and others in ...

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Japan Sumo Association Chairman Hakkaku on Friday vowed to thrill Thai fans when the sport's governing body holds an ...

In late June 1878, Isabella Bird and her party traveled upstream along the Ojika River toward what is now Lake Ikari in ...

A film festival to support reconstruction from the 2016 Kumamoto earthquakes kicked off Saturday, with film director Isao Y ...