Tony Blanco, the 2009 Central League home run and RBI champion in his first season with Japan's Chunichi Dragons, dies after ...

Around 24 percent of Japan's traffic lights in fiscal 2023 were recognized as being past their replacement date, the National Police Agency says, raising fears of serious accidents from signals ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and NATO chief Mark Rutte agree to step up defense industry cooperation amid security ...

Japan will take every possible measure to defend global financial market stability, a senior Finance Ministry official says, ...

The Nikkei stock index ends down nearly 4 percent, retreating from the previous day's sharp rebound, as selling accelerated ...

U.S. forces will deploy large reconnaissance drones in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa for an indefinite period ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has tapped his close aide Ryosei Akazawa, minister in charge of economic and fiscal policy, to ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's most sweeping round of tariffs took effect early Wednesday, with his top trade officials ...

Trespassing incidents at a central Japan train station depot depicted in the popular anime film "Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon a Time" have become an increasingly serious issue, the operator said ...

Paul Watson, founder of the anti-whaling group Sea Shepherd, has been notified by Interpol that a wanted notice against him ...

The Japanese government will release additional stockpiled rice every month until the end of July to stabilize soaring prices ...

Nissan Motor Co. is considering moving some of the production at one of its plants in southwestern Japan to the United States ...