Japanese novel "Butter" by Asako Yuzuki has won the debut fiction section at the 2025 British Book Awards, its Japanese ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed caution about a consumption tax cut as an inflation relief step on Sunday, suggesting ...

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

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