The death toll from torrential rains in western Japan passes the 100 mark and many people are still missing.

Hiroshima residents start the grim task of cleaning up from the horrific flooding and landslides.

The death toll from torrential rains in western Japan moved above 100 early Monday, with dozens of others still missing after massive flooding and landslides destroyed homes and displaced tens of thousands. This is a selection of scenes of the widespread damage. Rescue workers hunt ...

The Bank of Japan maintained its upbeat economic assessment for all nine regions of the country Monday and its governor voiced confidence that inflation will head toward his 2 percent target, suggesting that monetary policy will remain stable for the time being. In a quarterly ...

Chinese state-run media on Monday blasted the U.S. Navy's dispatch of two warships through the Taiwan Strait over the weekend, calling the move a "psychological game" as tensions between Washington and Beijing grow over trade and relations with Taipei. The Global Times newspaper, known for ...

Haruka Kuwabara, at 31 currently the youngest town mayor in Japan, was welcomed with flowers and applause by municipal employees in Tsunan, Niigata Prefecture, on Monday, her first day in office. "I'm filled with a sense of responsibility," Kuwabara said with a smile as she ...

A third of the world's oceans are overfished and fish consumption is at an all-time high, raising fears over the sustainability of a key source of protein for millions around the world, the United Nations warned in a report Monday. Overfishing is particularly bad in ...

Hideki Kawakita doesn't look like your average real estate agent. Dressed in jeans and a T-shirt spotted with bright purple and yellow illustrations, he looks more like a traveler, or maybe a writer. Perhaps it is precisely his unpretentious manner that has allowed him to single-handedly ...

Yuki Tatsumi was waiting tables at an izakaya pub in the city of Kyoto when something on the table caught his eye — a chopstick wrapper folded and fiddled into an abstract shape. It was the catalyst for the creation of a collection that now ...

A battle kicks off over who will take possession of his remains.

Dressed in heavy cotton and wearing a helmet and respirator, Jessica Ball worked the night shift monitoring fissure 8, which has been spewing fountains of lava as high as a 15-story building from a slope on Hawaii's Kilauea volcano. The lava poured into a channel ...

As U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo touched down in Pyongyang at 10:54 a.m. on Friday he had few details of his schedule in the North Korean capital — even which hotel he and his staff would stay in. Not much was clear aside from ...

Washington and Beijing need to come to their senses before they ruin global trade system that has taken decades to build and maintain.

Instead of trying to counterbalance China through a collective defense pact, the Quad four should build an informal security architecture.

We may have reached a turning point in the march of technological progress — and we are navigating it very badly.

Those looking to give their Japanese a bit of biker edge could do worse than take in a screening of the classic sci-fi anime "Akira."

Introducing some uses of the word べき (should).

Kohei Arihara was impressive over seven innings and Haruki Nishikawa drove in four runs to lead the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters to a 10-1 victory over the Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks at Tokyo Dome on Monday. Arihara (5-2) allowed five hits and hit a batter, while ...

A day after being recalled, Kazuhisa Makita was sent down to the minors for the fourth time in his major league debut season, the San Diego Padres announced Sunday. Makita was optioned to Triple-A El Paso after giving up seven runs, five earned, in two ...

The Hanshin Tigers should trade pitcher Shintaro Fujinami. Yes, that Shintaro Fujinami. The fire-balling right-hander who dominated at Koshien Stadium during Osaka Toin's run to the Summer Koshien title in 2012. The tall, lean rising star who for the next three years, while playing his ...

The B. League is keeping its feet moving forward as it prepares for its third year, hoping to broaden basketball's appeal among the public. On Monday, the nation's professional men's circuit released the schedule for the upcoming 2018-19 season. The campaign will tip off with a ...

Nasa Hataoka finished in a tie for 29th place on Sunday after finishing 18 shots behind South Korea's Kim Sei-young, who eclipsed the LPGA's 72-hole scoring record with a 31-under-par 257 total to win the Thornberry Creek LPGA Classic. Hataoka shot a 71 to end ...

Thierry Henry might be working as an assistant coach for Belgium, but his place in the pantheon of French soccer is secure, and there will be no hard feelings no matter the outcome of the World Cup semifinal, French forward Olivier Giroud said Sunday. Two ...

Shohei Ohtani's versatility was on display again Sunday. The two-way star launched a pinch-hit home run in the seventh inning that sent Andrew Heaney and the Los Angeles Angels to a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers. Bothered by a sore knee, Ohtani drove his ...