The Hokkaido boy found six days after he went missing says he lost his sense of direction because he cried so much after his father ordered him to get out of the car.

An anti-Korean group calls off a planned demonstration after about a dozen members of the group were surrounded by hundreds of people opposed to their views.

Japanese and South Korean officials on Saturday called on China to do more to help resolve the North Korean nuclear issue and lamented the lack of progress so far. Japanese Deputy Foreign Minister Shinsuke Sugiyama, speaking in Singapore at Asia's premier security forum, the Shangri-La ...

Polygon Pictures, one of the oldest digital animation studios worldwide, has been turning its lights off at 10 p.m. sharp since 2011. Employees can turn them back on again but they automatically go dark every hour. In Japanese animation companies, where workers normally stay at ...

No other Japanese ship was exposed to health-damaging radiation from the 1954 U.S. hydrogen bomb tests in the Pacific Ocean aside from the Fukuryu Maru No. 5, which was contaminated by fallout from one of the tests at Bikini Atoll, according to a recently ...

Visitors to Korakuen Garden in Okayama, one of the nation's top three Japanese gardens, exceeded 800,000 for the first time in 15 years, thanks to a surge in tourism and events to lure young people. Attendance hit 817,260 in fiscal 2015 ended in March. The ...

Global defense contractors are circling for business in Asia, with countries from Australia to Vietnam upgrading and adding everything from submarines to fighter jets as China expands its military reach. Defense budgets will keep rising, according to IHS Jane's, which forecasts that spending in the ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe would not say Saturday if he will step down if the ruling parties fail to win a majority of the seats up for grabs in the July 10 Upper House election. "We will win at the polls and, by all means, ...

The United States agrees to review the scope of a bilateral pact covering American military personnel and certain civilians while they are in Japan.

A modified polio virus can kill malignant tumors without harming normal cells, since its ability to grow depends on biochemical abnormalities only present in cancer cells.

China views the U.S. as a declining power that would not be able to sustain a major war in Asia.

Repeat-offending Ibaraki police called to account for backsliding on the issue of hotel snooping.

The Asia Pacific Dyslexia Festival & Symposium in Yokohama will be the first major event focusing on dyslexia ever held in Japan.

Though her eyes are a brilliant jade green, Pu'er's personality is like that of the sweet girl next door.

Floor specialist Kenzo Shirai will make his first Olympic journey this summer to Rio de Janeiro as he secured his place along with Yusuke Tanaka and Koji Yamamuro on Sunday following the national apparatus championships, which serve as Japan's final qualifying event. The trio joins ...

The Toshiba Brave Thunders are the last men standing in the NBL. The Kawasaki-based club showed lots of resilience and energy in winning the final three games of the best-of-five NBL Finals, clinching the title with a 76-70 victory in Game 5 over the Aisin ...

Japan coach Vahid Halilhodzic insists there will be no room for sentiment when the Samurai Blue take on Bosnia and Herzegovina in the final of the four-nation Kirin Cup on Tuesday night. The 63-year-old Halilhodzic, who holds Bosnian and French nationality, rejected the offer of ...

Slugging ace Shohei Otani hit a record 163 kph on his fastball, extended his hitting streak to 15 games and went the distance for the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters in a 6-2 interleague win over the Yomiuri Giants on Sunday. In front of a Tokyo ...

A few months ago, Jerry Izenberg, who has seen it all in his one-of-a-kind newspaper career, told me Muhammad Ali was once "one of my five best friends in the world." At the time of the wide-ranging phone interview, Ali was 73 years old, and ...