President Donald Trump said Friday the American public "deserves" a federal investigation of Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee over a joint fundraising agreement they signed in August 2015. In a multipart Twitter attack criticizing his former 2016 rival, he wrote: "Crooked Hillary bought ...

A tourist train crashed into a trailer truck at a crossing in Kumamoto Prefecture on Friday, slightly injuring 11 passengers, the police said. The accident took place around 10:15 a.m. on the JR Hisatsu Line in the city of Yatsushiro after the truck got stuck ...

Three and a half years before Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space, a dog called Laika was in 1957 the first living creature to orbit the Earth. The stray from Moscow is one of many animals who preceded humans in the ...

Ivanka Trump gets a $50 million pledge from Prime Minister Shinzo Abe for her women’s entrepreneur initiative ahead of her father’s visit to Japan.

While Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump are said to have a good personal relationship, 43.7 percent of those who responded to a recent survey by The Japan Times viewed it as bad for Japan, while 14.1 percent said it was ...

Takuya Yokota vividly remembers clutching a flashlight and running to the ocean with his mother and twin brother to look for his older sister in the dark, shouting her name. Megumi, then 13, had disappeared on her way home from school on a cold November ...

Despite cronyism allegations dogging Prime Minister Abe, his pal Kotaro Kake is likely to get permission to open Japan’s first new veterinary school in half a century, sources say.

The U.S. Air Force has again flown heavy B-1B bombers over the Korean Peninsula, this time just days ahead of Donald Trump's inaugural visit to Asia as president, with Japan set to be his first stop on Sunday. Two B-1Bs from Andersen Air Force Base ...

With fanfare and a White House kickoff, House Republicans unfurled a broad tax-overhaul plan Thursday that would touch virtually all Americans and the economy's every corner, mingling sharply lower rates for corporations and reduced personal taxes for many with fewer deductions for home-buyers and ...

A new species of orangutan has been discovered in the remote jungles of Indonesia, immediately becoming the world's most endangered great ape, researchers said Thursday. "It's the first declaration of a new great ape species in about 100 years," Ian Singleton, co-author of the study ...

A three-term Democratic Party politician offers to resign after his 21-year-old son is accused of assaulting an elementary school girl in Saitama.

The uptick in the Cabinet’s approval rating after the election is eclipsed by public opposition to amending the Constitution — especially Article 9.

America's allies must take proactive steps to steer the U.S. back to the right path.

Child-care subsidies and paid parental leave boost fertility rates by reducing the economic and opportunity costs of having children.

There's something alluring about the suburban stops between Sangenjaya and Shimotakaido stations, which has been serviced by the Tokyu Setagaya tramway for the past 110 years. Low-rise buildings and modest platforms tick by as the tram trundles at a leisurely pace westward from where I ...

The Tokyo International Film Festival has always struggled to distinguish itself from other big film events. It doesn't have the cultural cachet of Venice, Cannes or Toronto, and even within Asia it falls behind Busan and Hong Kong in terms of the caliber of ...

Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey is seeking unspecified treatment, according to his representatives, following allegations of sexual misconduct that have forced a halt in production of his Netflix show "House of Cards" and a social media backlash. "Kevin Spacey is taking the time necessary to seek ...

The BayStars fans at Yokohama Stadium know what to expect when the team enters the bottom of the ninth inning with a small lead. It's Yasuaki time. When Yokohama closer Yasuaki Yamasaki comes out of the bullpen and heads to the mound, it is one of ...

Ryoma Hashimoto and J.R. Sakuragi scored six points apiece in overtime and the SeaHorses Mikawa edged the Osaka Evessa 87-86 on Friday afternoon, extending their winning streak to 11 games. Sakuragi paced the SeaHorses (11-1) with 23 points on 8-for-12 shooting. He dished out a ...

One day after a win that made the Japan Series an actual, well, series, the Yokohama BayStars were back on the field in Fukuoka on Friday night. The odds of either of those things happening after the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks opened up a 3-0 lead ...

Wakaba Higuchi placed second in the women's short program on Friday at the Cup of China, the third event of the Grand Prix series. Higuchi, third at the season-opening Cup of Russia last month, scored 70.53 points at Capital Stadium to finish behind Canada's ...

Perennial underachievers Kawasaki Frontale will be hoping to make it fourth time lucky when they face Cerezo Osaka in the final of the YBC Levain Cup on Saturday. Frontale have never won a major domestic title and will be looking to break a League Cup ...

Sara Takanashi soared to victory in the women's ski jumping competition at the Nordic ski national championships on Friday. Takanashi posted jumps of 94 and 93.5 meters at Miyanomori Ski Jump Stadium to claim her first national title in two meets with a total of ...

With the clock threatening to strike midnight on the Yokohama BayStars' inspired run to the Japan Series, Alex Ramirez backed off. Ramirez didn't have any special meetings, give any particularly impassioned speeches or use different motivational tactics. With his team down 3-0 in the Japan ...

Jose Mourinho returns to Chelsea on Sunday and it is the safest of bets that Saturday's press conference will fire the first bullets ahead of a match neither side can afford to lose. Antonio Conte will inevitably be in Mourinho's sights, but to the ...

Japan and Australia head into Saturday's test match at Nissan Stadium knowing they both need to put behind them less than average performances against invitation sides. The Brave Blossoms lost 47-27 to a World XV last weekend, while the Wallabies — who beat the All ...

Halftime substitute Yuya Osako scored a brace and provided an assist in a dominant second half for Cologne, which beat BATE Borisov 5-2 Thursday in its second Europa League home match of the season. After the Belarusian visitors scored two goals in two minutes to ...