Prosecutors have chosen to bring more serious charges, and now the maximum penalty he faces is 20 years behind bars.

Soil and sand are now being loaded on barges for the controversial construction project in Okinawa Prefecture.

Inside Nissan Motor Co. he was known as the "CEO whisperer": The chief of staff who would deliver the most delicate messages to Carlos Ghosn, and the man Ghosn would count on to enforce his directives. Today, Greg Kelly is locked up in a small ...

Taking out a wallet loaded with cash, receipts and loyalty cards and searching for coins in front of a cashier is a familiar scene at stores in Japan. But the country wants more consumers to kick that habit and engage in cashless transactions using credit ...

Five-year old Yua Funato was found unconscious at a Tokyo apartment in March, her feet severely frostbitten and her face and body covered with bruises that were inflicted by her 33-year-old stepfather. She was later pronounced dead at a hospital from pneumonia-induced sepsis caused ...

The loss of President George H.W. Bush symbolizes the end to the era of elite U.S. statesmanship.

For Japan, the U.S. has traditionally held the role — but that was before the Trump administration.

More Japanese women are working, but many still professionally underachieve.

Japanese words you'd think should be written in katakana will sometimes show up in hiragana. There's a cultural reason behind these rare switches.

The word "tada" and it's rarer counterpart "mottomo" help link sentences in conversational and written Japanese.

Tokyo's summers are hot. That means upcoming Olympic events may need to start earlier in the morning.

Nick Fazekas has said he would welcome one of his Japan teammates stepping into the limelight. But as usual, it was he who came through, becoming the biggest factor in the Akatsuki Five's latest victory. The naturalized Japanese center racked up 41 points and 15 rebounds ...

Injury-plagued yokozuna Kisenosato, who has failed to start or complete nine of the past 10 tournaments, resumed training Monday for the first time since pulling out from last month's Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament. The first Japan-born wrestler in 19 years to be promoted to the ...

Striker Takumi Minamino netted the winning goal in Salzburg's 1-0 victory over Rheindorf Altach at home on Sunday. Minamino scored his fourth league goal of the season in the 18th minute at Red Bull Arena off a pass from Andre Ramalho. Salzburg now sit on ...

Is there a future for esports in the Olympics? It's a question some have begun to ask as competitive gaming continues to rise in popularity and the International Olympic Committee continues to search for ways to get younger audiences interested in the Olympic Games. Gaming and ...

Ryoyu Kobayashi posted his third victory of the season, and of his career, at the ski jumping World Cup event on Sunday to take the overall lead in the men's rankings with 420 points. The 22-year-old has finished on the podium in all five individual ...

The Seibu Lions have posted left-hander Yusei Kikuchi to the major leagues, the Pacific League champions announced Monday. Kikuchi, 27, applied to Nippon Professional Baseball, and the league in turn informed Major League Baseball, according to the team. He needed his club's approval to move ...