Shohei Ohtani extended his hit streak to nine Major League Baseball games for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Sunday, going ...

Japan's health insurance system, praised globally for supporting one of the world's longest-lived populaces, ensures medical ...

An elderly woman was found collapsed on a street in Chiba near Tokyo on Sunday afternoon and was later confirmed dead at a ...

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

Lone yokozuna Hoshoryu made a confident start Sunday at the Summer Grand Sumo Tournament with a push-out victory against ...

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

Shohei Ohtani crushed a tiebreaking three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a ...

A South Korean temple that claimed ownership of a 14th-century Buddha statue stolen from a Japanese temple in 2012 handed it ...

India and Pakistan have agreed to an immediate ceasefire, they said Saturday, following a sharp escalation of the conflict ...

The United States and China on Saturday made "great progress" in high-level trade talks after discussing many issues in a ...

Representatives of U.S. forces in Japan and Okinawa authorities hold their first meeting Friday under a new forum to discuss ...

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