Japan's ruling coalition led by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi may be tempted to renege on its promise of realizing ...

The western Japan city of Sakai, the birthplace of tea master Sen no Rikyu (1522-1591), is moving ahead with plans for ...

Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force's regiment at Camp Nerima in Tokyo scrapped a new logo created by one of its members using ...

A new study suggests that a tiny, icy world beyond Pluto harbors a thin, delicate atmosphere that may have been created b ...

Chicago White Sox slugger Munetaka Murakami hit his 14th home run Monday in a 6-0 win against the Los Angeles Angels, t ...

Big repair work on the five-story pagoda at Rurikoji temple in Yamaguchi has finished. The pagoda is a national treasure and ...

The 67-year-old is symbolic of efforts by the western Japanese city of Matsuyama in Ehime Prefecture, long known primarily ...

The U.S. military said it fired on Iranian forces and sank six small boats targeting civilian ships as it moved to ...

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A driver plowed into people in a busy shopping area in the center of the German city of Leipzig on Monday afternoon, leaving ...

For people with hearing impairments in Japan, help can come on four paws -- but awareness and access remain limited.

A genre known as "healing novels," or stories that soothe and comfort the hearts of readers, is becoming a global trend. One ...