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

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

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

The health ministry reported 22,288 new COVID-19 cases for the week to Aug. 17, marking the ninth consecutive seven-day ...

South Korean President Lee Jae-myung expressed his eagerness to issue a new joint declaration with Japan to pivot bilateral ...

McDonald’s Japan canceled a Happy Meal promotion featuring “One Piece” trading cards after a “Pokemon” card giveaway led to ...

In his book titled “Umi wo Hiraita Hitobito” (People who opened up the sea), folklorist Tsuneichi Miyamoto (1907-1981) wrote ...

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

YOKOHAMA—The 9th Tokyo International Conference on African Development concluded here on Aug. 22 with participating countries ...

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

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

MANILA–Two suspects have been taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of two Japanese tourists here, local ...