Expectations are growing that Yoshihiko Noda, the new leader of the main opposition party, could mount a strong challenge in ...

Support for the main opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and other parties out of power is ...

Former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka says she will skip the Billie Jean King Cup team tennis finals next month in Spain because of ...

The defense chiefs of Japan, Britain, and Italy have agreed to accelerate their planned joint development of a ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is sworn in, becoming the first new leader of Southeast Asia's largest democracy in a ...

Wakaba Higuchi picks up her first career Grand Prix figure skating title, leading a one-two finish for Japan at Skate America ...

Japan's Mari Fukada and Taiga Hasegawa each make a winning start to the snowboarding World Cup season in big air, topping ...

New Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin agree to further enhance the deterrence ...

The transport ministry starts excavating a taxiway at Miyazaki Airport in southwestern Japan after discovering what appears ...

Guard Yuki Kawamura signs a two-way contract with the Memphis Grizzlies, becoming the first Japanese player from the ...

Financial education for children in Japan has taken on greater urgency since the country lowered the age of adulthood from 20 ...

Japan's former Empress Michiko turns 90, marking the occasion alongside husband former Emperor Akihito who reached the ...