Japan men's national basketball team head coach Tom Hovasse says he is aiming for Olympic qualification and a quarterfinal ...

Kamala Harris, the first female, first Black and first Asian American U.S. vice president, has cast herself as a candidate of the future in seeking the presidency, often touting her life story as ...

Former U.S. President Donald Trump has not changed much since he first ran for office in 2016. The conventional wisdom has ...

Americans are voting Tuesday in the hotly contested U.S. presidential election, with polls showing the Democratic nominee Kamala Harris and her Republican opponent Donald Trump essentially tied in all ...

Veteran southpaw Tsuyoshi Wada has decided to retire after 22 years in professional baseball, the Pacific League champion ...

Japan's Mecca of martial arts, the Nippon Budokan, hosted women's kendo competition for the first time at the recent national ...

Japanese manga artist Kazuo Umezu, known for horror pieces like "Hyoryu Kyoshitsu" (The Drifting Classroom) and his signature red-and-white-striped shirt, has died in Tokyo, according to publisher ...

When police searched a group of abandoned motels in a city some 50 kilometers northeast of Tokyo earlier this year, they ...

An advisory panel to UNESCO has recommended Japan's traditional knowledge and skills for making sake and "shochu" distilled ...

North Korea fires multiple short-range ballistic missiles toward the Sea of Japan, the Japanese Defense Ministry said, in a ...

The Tokyo Stock Exchange extended its regular trading hours by 30 minutes from Tuesday as part of its efforts to make the ...

China's top diplomat, Wang Yi, and Takeo Akiba, Japan's chief national security adviser, hold marathon talks in Beijing and ...