The number of confirmed deaths in flood-hit Kyushu climbs to 34, with an additional seven people still unaccounted for.

China's economy expanded faster than expected in the second quarter, setting the country on course to comfortably meet its 2017 growth target and giving policymakers room to tackle big economic challenges ahead of key leadership changes later this year. The boost to growth was in ...

Mazda Motor Corp. is recalling 19,000 cars in South Africa due to air bag safety concerns as the Japanese carmaker extends a global recall to cover a wider manufacturing period, its local unit said Monday. The recall was prompted by investigations in Japan and North ...

Uber Technologies Inc. shareholders and its board, led by early backer Benchmark, are rumored to have discussed selling some of their shares to Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp. and other potential investors.

The global recall of Takata Corp.’s defective air bags widens, but legal experts said a bigger worry for car companies caught in the fallout is playing out in a U.S. courtroom

South Korea on Monday proposed military talks with North Korea, the first formal overture to Pyongyang by the government of President Moon Jae-in, and said the two sides should discuss ways to avoid hostile acts near the heavily militarized border. There was no immediate response ...

Italy's government will not try to push through a law that would grant citizenship to the children of immigrants in the next few weeks, Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni said on Sunday. The draft law faced opposition from politicians including members of a small centrist group ...

Deborah Chenault Green is 62, a writer. But 50 years ago she was a preteen, sleeping on the porch to escape the oppressive heat, awakening to see a sky that glowed unnaturally. Azerine Jones is a retired baker. But in 1967 she was the 12-year-old ...

Martin Landau, a star of the 1960s television series "Mission: Impossible" who made a late-career comeback with an Academy Award-winning performance in the 1994 film "Ed Wood," died on Saturday at age 89, his publicist said on Sunday. Landau died at UCLA Medical Center in ...

Randy Messenger allowed one run over six innings to earn his ninth win as the Hanshin Tigers took down the Hiroshima Carp 2-1 on Monday night. As Nippon Professional Baseball resumed play after the weekend's All-Star break, the second-place Tigers moved within seven games of ...

Hakuho reached yet another milestone by tying late yokozuna Chiyonofuji at 1,045 career victories after beating fourth-ranked maegashira Kagayaki at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday. Yokozuna Hakuho remained peerless at the 15-day tournament, improving to a perfect 9-0 with an easy win over ...

The final round of the Home Run Derby that preceded Game 1 of the NPB All-Star Series on Friday ended with a 4-4 tie and the player declared as the winner, via tiebreaker, looking around in confusion. It was yet another example that Japanese ...

Yui Kamiji and Jordanne Whiley of Britain clinched their fourth consecutive women's wheelchair doubles title at the Wimbledon on Sunday. Kamiji, 23, and Whiley, 25, came from behind to defeat Dutch pair Marjolein Buis and Diede De Groot 2-6, 6-3, 6-0 in the final, sealing ...