Tokyo stocks gained Friday morning, with heavyweight semiconductor and technology issues making robust advances on hopes for ...

About 7.6% of students at four prestigious private universities in west Japan's Kansai area said the use of illegal drugs is ...

A visitor to Japan who wanders into a sumo tournament might be forgiven for thinking they had intruded upon a religious ...

Japan's largest labor union decided Thursday to demand a wage hike of at least 5 percent in next spring's annual ...

New Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is arranging her first telephone talks with U.S. President Donald Trump for ...

Japan and the United States are arranging a meeting between their defense chiefs in Tokyo next Wednesday, sources familiar ...

While most of baseball is saying hats off to Shohei Ohtani, Toronto manager John Schneider wants a cap back from the two-way ...

Japan's core consumer prices in September rose 2.9 percent from a year earlier, driven by higher energy prices, government ...

New Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi showed her eagerness on Thursday to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, renewing ...

For centuries, the rich aroma of grilled eel has been woven into Japan's culinary landscape -- its glossy, sweet-savory sauce ...

U.S. President Donald Trump will leave late Friday for his first trip to Asia of his second term, during which he will visit ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party on Thursday called for hiking the departure tax from the current 1,000 yen ($7) per ...