Some 19% of respondents to a July Mainichi Shimbun public opinion poll said they "have positive expectations" for Sanseito, ...

A research team led by a Nagoya University professor has announced it has discovered a mechanism that prevents mosquitoes ...

Japanese narcotics agents said Wednesday they have seized 1.046 tons of cannabis worth about 5.2 billion yen ($35 million) on ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.1 struck off Ibaraki Prefecture northeast of Tokyo early Thursday morning, ...

This Aug. 12 marked 40 years since a Japan Airlines jumbo jet crashed in Gunma Prefecture in the eastern part of the country.

Former WBC minimumweight champion Yudai Shigeoka announced his retirement Wednesday to offer his support to his younger ...

Shohei Ohtani lined into a triple play in the sixth inning and hit a tiebreaking homer in the ninth, but the Los Angeles ...

Japanese pop idol Kenshin Kamimura was found guilty of a charge of indecent assault on a female interpreter in a Hong Kong ...

Daichi Ishii tied a Nippon Professional Baseball record of pitching 39 consecutive shutout innings as the Central ...

As the plane touches down at the airport in Nyingchi, in China's remote eastern Tibetan Autonomous Region, the slogan ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy will visit Berlin on Wednesday to join German Chancellor Friedrich Merz for talks ...