Official campaigning kicked off in South Korea for next month's election to choose the successor to ousted President Yoon Suk ...

Struggling Japanese automaker Nissan Motor Co. plans to cut around 20,000 jobs globally, more than 10,000 above the reduction ...

Lone yokozuna Hoshoryu notches another convincing win at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament, crushing out No. 1 maegashira ...

Although Japan's sake industry faces a crisis with falling domestic consumption, the country's oldest brand, Kenbishi, is ...

China has agreed with the United States to establish an economic and trade consultation mechanism to discuss issues of mutual ...

A pupil at a prestigious national elementary school in Tokyo quit the school this year after being the victim of bullying, a ...

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

U.S. President Donald Trump's unilateral tariffs will hurt Americans more than the countries targeted by them, according to ...

A 16-year-old boy was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder after his grandparents were found dead at their home in ...

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

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

Hideki Matsui, former slugger who played for the New York Yankees and Japan's Yomiuri Giants, poses for a photo at the Giants ...