Ethiopians Tadese Takele and Sutume Asefa Kebede won their divisions of the Tokyo Marathon on a nearly perfect spring day in ...

Forest fires continued to devour wilderness and threaten communities in three mountainous prefectures on March 1 as ...

Thousands of mourners attended a funeral on Saturday for a Taliban-linked cleric slain in a suicide bomb attack on a seminary ...

Wearing colorful robes and fearsome masks, the monks high stepped and spun around around the sandstone courtyard to the sound ...

Japan sent a subtle message to China by dispatching a Maritime Self-Defense Force destroyer on a solo trip through the Taiwan ...

A new longevity record of 42 years and seven months has been established in Japan for the short-tailed albatross, a species ...

For the third consecutive year, net positive migration to Tokyo, or the gap between newcomers and departures, increased in ...

A JR express train was filled to 60-percent capacity when it left Sapporo Station for Shimukappu in the central part of ...

Harrow International School Appi Japan located in Hachimantai, Iwate Prefecture, and Hakuba International School located in ...

BEIJING--Beijing said on Friday it opposed President Donald Trump’s latest threat to slap an extra 10% duty on Chinese ...

To curtail harmful applications of artificial intelligence that may violate human rights, spread misinformation or break laws ...

The founding family of the company that is now Seven & i Holdings Co. has abandoned a buyout plan to prevent a hostile ...