Incumbents pledging economic promotion are set to win gubernatorial elections in Nagasaki and Yamaguchi prefectures Sunday, beating newcomers who focused more on welfare issues. In Nagasaki, Hodo Nakamura, 67, beat 56-year-old rival Toshihiko Haraguchi, who belongs to the local chapter of the Japanese Communist Party, ...

Cranial bones of three primitive horned dinosaurs have been found in a Lower Cretaceous stratum in Sasayama, Hyogo Prefecture, the Museum of Nature and Human Activities said Saturday. Noting that the ages of the dinosaurs are different, the prefectural museum hopes that the bones can ...

Japan successfully launched on Saturday the world's smallest satellite-carrying rocket following a failed attempt in January last year, the nation's space agency said. The rocket about the size of a utility pole, measuring 10 meters in length and 50 centimeters in diameter, lifted off from ...

Dozens of victims of a massive cryptocurrency theft from the virtual currency exchange Coincheck launched an association Saturday to jointly negotiate reimbursement and consider filing a lawsuit against the Tokyo-based company. Around 30 Coincheck Inc. account holders and three lawyers got together in Tokyo after ...

Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will ask the United States and South Korea to conduct a planned joint military drill after the Pyeongchang Olympics without scaling it down in order to keep pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear and missile development, a ...

The U.S. Department of Defense temporarily removed and reposted its new Nuclear Posture Review report from its website after mistakenly labeling Taiwan as part of mainland China — the latest lapse by the Trump administration involving the sensitive issue. "There was an error printed in ...

Daigo Higa scored a first-round knockout of Mexico's Moises Fuentes to win the second defense of his WBC flyweight title on Sunday. The 22-year-old Higa, improved to 15-0 in his pro career with every win coming by knockout. Fuentes, the ninth-ranked challenger and a former ...

The Nagoya Diamond Dolphins trailed by 20 points entering the second half of Sunday's series finale. For Nagoya, it wasn't time to push the panic button. It was time to chip away at the lead. Mission accomplished. The Diamond Dolphins earned a 77-74 victory over the San-en NeoPhoenix ...

Kaori Sakamoto arrived in South Korea on Sunday, quietly confident she can ride her wave of momentum in the women's figure skating competition at the Pyeongchang Olympics. The Japan Skating Federation made what it described as a "difficult decision" in December and picked Sakamoto ahead ...

Boxing could be excluded from the 2020 Tokyo Olympics if the sport's worldwide governing body does not resolve problems ranging from governance to anti-doping issues, International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach said Sunday. Following a meeting of its executive board, Bach said the IOC had ...

Fabio Fognini won his third match of the weekend to lift Italy into the Davis Cup semifinals at the expense of Japan on Sunday. Fognini, ranked 22nd in the world, won his opening singles on Friday in five sets and gave Italy the lead in ...

South Africa's Desmond Mokgobu crossed the tape three seconds ahead of Japan's top finisher Hayato Sonoda to win the Beppu-Oita Marathon on Sunday. Sonoda led the race at the 30-km mark but was overtaken 5 km later by Mokgobu, who finished the 42.195-km course from ...

Former World No. 4 Kei Nishikori returned to winning form after a five-month injury layoff and beat American Mackenzie McDonald in the final of the RBC Tennis Championships, an ATP Challenger Tour event, in Dallas on Saturday. The 28-year-old, who dropped to No. 27 after ...

Keisuke Honda provided one of the highlights of the match Saturday with a dazzling free-kick goal, but it wasn't enough to stop 10-man Pachuca going down 2-3 to visiting Morelia in the Mexican first division. The home side took the lead thanks to a long-range ...