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

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 ...

Tokyo stocks plunged Wednesday morning, with the Nikkei index briefly losing around 4 percent, as selling was fueled by ...

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 ...

Kyodo News presents a bilingual podcast for English learners about the ins and outs of news writing in the World Services ...

Some Japanese banks have begun blocking withdrawals from accounts held by foreigners whose period of stay has expired, the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba takes a cautious stance toward hitting the United States with a retaliatory tariff in ...