Japan's health insurance system, praised globally for supporting one of the world's longest-lived populaces, ensures medical ...

A 15-year-old boy was arrested for allegedly stabbing an elderly woman to death on a street in Chiba, near Tokyo, the ...

Shohei Ohtani extended his hit streak to nine Major League Baseball games for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, going ...

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 ...

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

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

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

The United States and China began high-level talks on Saturday in Switzerland to de-escalate trade tensions, according to ...

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

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

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