Prime Minister Shinzo Abe urged Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi on Tuesday to make it possible for refugees to return to their homes in Rakhine state, from which hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims have fled. According to a Japanese government spokesman, Abe also ...

Grand champion sumo wrestler Harumafuji was involved in a drunken brawl late last month that left fellow Mongolian competitor Takanoiwa hospitalized with serious injuries, his stablemaster admitted to sumo administrators on Tuesday. Stablemaster Isegahama's comments were the first public acknowledgment of the incident. According to a ...

Surprise move following October election defeat likely to deal a fresh blow to a party facing tepid support.

Osaka Gov. Ichiro Matsui departed for Paris on Tuesday to lobby for Osaka's bid to host the 2025 World Expo. Matsui will attend a meeting of the Paris-based Bureau International des Expositions, the 170-member state organization that awards World Expos, on Wednesday. Paris is also ...

Abe told his counterparts that approaching Pyongyang for talks now would result in nothing meaningful, according to a Japanese government source.

North Korea hasn't fired a missile for 60 days, but that may have more to do with its own winter training cycle than with Pyongyang easing off on provocations. Since Kim Jong Un took power in late 2011, only five of the isolated nation's 85 ...

The administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has taken action to close legal loopholes that have led to major government scandals over alleged document cover-ups. Last week the Cabinet Office unveiled draft guidelines for saving government documents and solicited public comment. Abe's government plans to ...

While noting that Japan is a major trading partner of the U.S., Wilbur Ross said the partnership has resulted in a "very large” deficit."

After talks aimed at wrapping up the Trans-Pacific Partnership almost collapsed in acrimony in Vietnam last week, ministers are now warning that a rival Asian pact should also focus on quality over speed. That doesn't mean the 16-nation Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership won't get done. ...

A former caregiver at a Tokyo nursing home was arrested Tuesday over the murder of an 83-year-old resident at the facility in August, the police said. Hisashi Minakawa, 25, has admitted to the killing, the police said. The victim, Kan Fujisawa, "repeatedly wet the bed ...

What's a university degree worth in Japan? About ¥2.9 million a year based on starting salaries for new graduates, and the figure has barely budged over the past decade. That's about half what their counterparts start out on in the U.S., where pay for new ...

Bank of Japan Gov. Haruhiko Kuroda said the central bank can help avoid negative price shocks and achieve its 2 percent inflation target by working on inflation expectations through forward guidance. "Although there remain issues to be resolved to achieve the price stability target of ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his counterparts from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations held the annual Japan-ASEAN summit on Monday in Manila, during which Abe said Japan and ASEAN should lead the development of a "free and open" international order. "With ASEAN having become ...

The name "Chibanian," based on a stratum discovered in Chiba Prefecture, is set to represent the geological age when the latest reversal of the Earth's magnetic fields is believed to have occurred, a Japanese national research institute said Monday. The National Institute of Polar Research ...

Myanmar's army released a report on Monday denying all allegations of rape and killings by security forces, having days earlier replaced the general in charge of the operation that drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. No reason was given for Maj. ...

U.S. President Donald Trump's visit to Japan, South Korea and China this month showcased his foreign policy driven primarily by the pursuit of America's interests first.

U.S. President Donald Trump's 'America first' policy is amounting to 'Asia first' in the global economic packing order.

If you grew up during the 1980s or 1990s, there's a good chance that you spent more time listening to the music of Hirokazu Tanaka than to many of your favorite pop songs. Such was the reach of the work that the Kyoto native ...

Entering the tatami-mat tearoom-style exhibition spaces at the back of Kyoto's specialist pewter art craft gallery, Seikado, spectators are apprised that the magnetism of the pieces on display might interfere with the strips on their credit cards. Those fitted with pacemakers are also asked ...

The Sunrockers Shibuya played determined defense in the second half, holding the Levanga Hokkaido to 20 points over the final 20 minutes. And that was enough for the Sunrockers to secure a 66-60 victory over the hosts and extended their winning streak to five games. Shibuya ...

The two yokozuna competing at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament had positive results on Tuesday, with Kisenosato and Hakuho winning convincingly, while Harumafuji was forced to pull out after the alleged assault of a fellow wrestler. Kisenosato (2-1) swept past No. 2 maegashira Chiyotairyu (1-2) ...

It wasn't a great start for them — OK, the Warriors aren't going 80-2 — but Golden State is back at the top of the Western Conference, as expected. The Rockets, only somewhat surprisingly, are hanging in with them, though perhaps more because Chris Paul ...

At an event that was massively overshadowed by the injury and subsequent withdrawal of Yuzuru Hanyu, something else was very apparent at the NHK Trophy: Satoko Miyahara's bid to make Japan's Olympic team for the Pyeongchang Games is in big trouble. That might be understating ...