Masato Harada, a Japanese director known for films such as "Chronicle of My Mother" and "Climber's High" that explored ...

Japan's Miho Takagi won her first individual World Cup event of the season on Friday in the women's 1,500 meters to all but ...

The Bank of Japan is set to raise its key policy rate to 0.75 percent from the current 0.50 percent at its two-day board ...

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, ...

Los Angeles Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto is set to pitch for Japan at the World Baseball Classic in March, joining two-way ...

TOKYO - Northern and northeastern Japan was jolted by a magnitude 6.9 earthquake on Friday, triggering small tsunami waves ...

The kanji for "kuma," meaning bear, was picked as the single most representative Chinese character corresponding to the ...

Japan is considering allocating about 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for next fiscal year's defense budget, including plans to ...

A telecom tower on a building in northeastern Japan, where damage including a broken pillar was detected after a powerful ...

Northern and northeastern Japan was jolted by a magnitude 6.9 earthquake on Friday, triggering small tsunami waves along ...

Figure skating icon Yuzuru Hanyu will host his ice show commemorating the 15th anniversary of the devastating March 11 ...

Reigning Olympic champion Ayumu Hirano punched his ticket to February's Milan-Cortina Winter Games on Friday as he led a ...