Japan's top three opposition leaders met on Wednesday to seek a unified candidate for prime minister in their bid to oust the ruling party from power, only to find there were still "gaps" between them ...

The number of foreign visitors to Japan between January and September rose 17.7 percent from a year earlier to around 31.65 million, marking the fastest pace on record in surpassing 30 million within ...

Prosecutors have called for the death sentence for a 28-year-old man charged with killing three people and wounding another with a crossbow in Takarazuka City, Hyogo Prefecture, in 2020. The lay judge ...

New challenges will test Pokemon trainers' reactions in their virtual beast battles, as the near-30-year-old saga's latest installment hits Nintendo consoles on Thursday. "Pokemon Legends: Z-A" will ...

The United States expects Japan to stop importing Russian energy resources, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said Wednesday, as President Donald Trump steps up calls on Washington's allies to do more ...

Bears have killed a record seven people in Japan this year, the highest since 2006 when the survey started, an environment ministry official said Thursday. More and more wild bears have been spotted ...

Sumo wrestlers from Japan began a five-day tournament at London's Royal Albert Hall on Wednesday. It marks only the second time the elite five-day tournament will be held outside Japan. The first was ...

The captain of the giant Royal Navy battleship called his officers together to give them a first morsel of one of World War II’s most closely guarded secrets: Prepare yourselves, he said, for “an ...

Aid trucks rolled into Gaza on Wednesday and Israel resumed preparations to open the main Rafah crossing after a dispute over the return of the bodies of dead hostages that had threatened to derail ...

Top U.S. officials on Wednesday blasted China's major expansion of rare earth export controls as a threat to global supply chains, but said Beijing could still change course and avoid steps by ...

Vladimir Guerrero Jr and George Springer woke up Toronto’s offense as the Blue Jays hit five home runs to rebound from an early deficit, routing the Seattle Mariners 13-4 Wednesday night and closing ...

A federal judge on Wednesday temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s administration from firing workers during the government shutdown, saying the cuts appeared to be politically motivated and ...