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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

India and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, they said Saturday, following a sharp escalation of the conflict ...

FIFA unanimously decided Friday to expand the number of participating teams in the Women's World Cup from 32 to 48 as of the ...

Shohei Ohtani crushed a tiebreaking three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a ...

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

Japan's former Emperor Akihito was discharged from a Tokyo hospital on Saturday after undergoing an examination of his heart ...