An object believed to be an unexploded wartime bomb was discovered on a Hiroshima University campus in western Japan, police ...

Seiya Suzuki reached double figures in home runs for the fourth straight Major League Baseball season as the Chicago Cubs ...

Around half of respondents to a survey believed at least one of 15 instances of false information on social media after ...

Walking out of the "Hanoi Hilton" prison a free man after six and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam, Douglas "Pete ...

Japanese electronics firm Sharp Corp. said Monday it will sell a liquid crystal display panel plant in central Japan, once ...

Japan's rice prices fell for the first time in 18 weeks to 4,214 yen ($28.50) per 5 kilograms, the government said Monday, ...

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

Japan is seeing a boom in gold investment amid heightening concerns over a global economic slowdown caused by U.S. President ...

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

A 14th-century, stolen in October 2012 and taken to South Korea, was returned to a Japanese temple on Monday, ending a ...

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 ...