Lone yokozuna Hoshoryu made a confident start Sunday at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with a push-out victory against ...

A Chinese research vessel was seen lowering a pipe-like object into the sea within Japan's exclusive economic zone on Sunday, ...

In the balloting to choose the next pope, Cardinal Robert Prevost secured 105 of 133 votes to become the new leader of the ...

Panasonic Holdings Corp. says it will lay off 10,000 domestic and overseas employees, or just under 5 percent of its total ...

The Tokyo government has begun work to redevelop a two-kilometer expressway which encircles the capital's Ginza shopping ...

Three Chinese nationals were arrested for operating a poker gambling den in Tokyo, police said, suspecting they made over 60 ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed caution about a consumption tax cut as an inflation relief step on Sunday, suggesting ...

App-based digital salary payments are yet to gain traction in Japan two years after being introduced, with only a fraction of ...

A South Korean temple that claimed ownership of a 14th-century Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012 handed it ...

The United States and China on Saturday made "great progress" in high-level trade talks after discussing many issues in a ...

Representatives of U.S. forces in Japan and Okinawa authorities hold their first meeting Friday under a new forum to discuss ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Thursday guided a missile test to boost the military's nuclear counterattack capability, ...