Two men were seriously injured early Monday at a members-only gambling venue in the city of Osaka's Minami entertainment district, police said. A suspect, thought to be a man in his 30s, left behind a revolver while fleeing the casino-style online gambling hub, the police ...

The only dedicated coal-carrying railroad still running in Japan will cease operations at the end of this month, ending its 94-year mission to support the country's industrial development. The railroad, operated these days by Taiheiyo Coal Services & Transportation Co., runs entirely within the city ...

The U.S. ambassador for religious freedom again urged China on Monday to give its people religious freedom, a move he said could help gain trust from self-ruled Taiwan, an island China considers its own. Sam Brownback said in a speech Friday in Hong Kong that ...

After a frantic scramble, local political and business leaders remain concerned about who will support him.

The venture, set up in 2002, had become nonfunctional in recent years.

This is the last in a five-part series examining how the northeast and the nation are progressing with efforts to deal with the March 2011 earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis. Even after the Fukushima No. 1 crisis in March 2011 forced Japan to rethink its ...

Over the past few decades, towns, cities and prefectures throughout Japan have been churning out mascots to represent and promote themselves, resulting in an annual contest, the Yuru-kyara Grand Prix, that has come to symbolize their popularity. But last year's contest in Osaka in November ...

An Ethiopian Airlines jet faltered and crashed Sunday shortly after takeoff, carving a gash in the earth and spreading global grief to 35 countries that had someone among the 157 people who were killed. There was no immediate indication why the plane went down in ...

Japan pauses at 2:46 p.m. to observe a moment of silence and reflect on all that has happened since that fateful day.

Despite the passage of time, their stories are still heart-wrenching.

The prenuptial agreement, an age-old practice fairly common in many Western countries, is gaining a foothold in Japan as more and more people insist on drawing one up to ensure they will be protected if their marriage ends badly. In Japan, formalizing the do's and ...

A man was arrested Sunday after a local assembly member in Chiba Prefecture was found to have been stabbed to death at his condominium. Norihisa Ishikawa, a 71-year-old assembly member of the city of Kisarazu, was found by his wife lying face down in the ...

An Indonesian woman held two years on suspicion of killing the North Korean leader's half brother was freed from custody Monday after a Malaysian judge discharged the murder charge against her. The judge discharged Siti Aisyah without an acquittal after prosecutors said they wanted to ...

From battling a storm in the Solomon Islands to consulting a witch doctor in Swaziland, Ben Wu has trekked some of the world's less-trodden paths as he embarks on a quest to visit all of Taiwan's dwindling diplomatic allies. The list of countries he must ...

China's aviation regulator said Monday it had ordered Chinese airlines to suspend their Boeing Co. 737 Max aircraft operations by 6 p.m. following a deadly crash of a 737 Max 8 operated by Ethiopian Airlines. An Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 bound for Nairobi crashed ...

The Free and Open Indo-Pacific strategy is now the official policy of Japan and the United States, but few people understand what it comprises.

Japan still has the right to organize, and unions are good both for members and management.

If you turn an 'H' on its side, you get something that looks like the kanji kō or ku, and from there you can go all sorts of places.

You might be surprised how often you will use the Japanese expressions for 'carelessness' and 'without intention' once you've learned them

Following China implementing a restriction on the import of plastic waste, Japan has looked to Southeast Asia as a possible destination for its plastic rubbish.

The world's smallest baby boy, who was born at a hospital in Tokyo, has been allowed to go home after his weight increased to 3,238 grams from his birthweight of just 268 grams.

Mohammed Khalfan Al-Romaithi, a candidate for the Asian Football Confederation presidency, said Monday he supports an expanded 48-team field for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. Speaking to Kyodo News in Tokyo, Al-Romaithi of the United Arab Emirates said that if he wins the April ...

Four-time Olympic wrestling champion Kaori Icho will represent Japan at April's Asian Championships in her first international competition since the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the Japan Wrestling Federation said Monday. Icho, who is aiming to win her fifth straight Olympic gold medal at the ...

The Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles donated 1,000 seats on Monday from their home stadium to a local ballpark in Miyagi Prefecture in northeastern Japan, an area hit by the devastating earthquake and tsunami in 2011. Eagles president Yozo Tachibana presented the seats from Rakuten Seimei ...

Masataka Yoshida's grand slam led the way as Japan beat Mexico 6-0 on Sunday and earn a split in their two-game series. A day after a 4-2 loss in which he drove in Japan's first run and scored the other, Yoshida again was Japan's batting ...

When many people think of sumo, they imagine two large men locked in a vice-like grip straining to force each other out of a ring. The common English-language naming of the sport as "sumo wrestling" also reinforces that grappling image. Go to almost any stable and ...

Yokozuna Hakuho survived a scare against Endo on Monday and celebrated a win on his 34th birthday on the second day of the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament. In the day's penultimate bout at Edion Arena Osaka, top-ranked maegashira Endo (0-2) had Hakuho on the ropes, ...

Japanese midfielder Shinji Kagawa scored the winner in Besiktas' 3-2 victory over Konyaspor in the Turkish first division on Sunday. After coming off the bench in the 75th minute at Vodafone Park, Kagawa found the ball three minutes into stoppage time thanks to a turnover ...

Kei Nishikori survived a scare against France's Adrian Mannarino on Sunday to reach the third round of the BNP Paribas Open. The sixth-seeded Nishikori beat Mannarino 6-4, 4-6, 7-6 (7-4) in his opener at the ATP Masters 1000 event at Indian Wells Tennis Garden. The world ...

Miho Takagi ended the 2018-2019 World Cup in style on Sunday, setting a world record on her way to winning the competition's final 1,500-meter race of the season. Takagi clocked 1 minute, 49.83 seconds to claim the World Cup Final victory on the Utah Olympic ...

World No. 1 Kento Momota on Sunday became the first Japanese man to win the All England Open badminton championships when he beat Denmark's Viktor Axelsen 2-1 in the men's singles final. Momota, the reigning world champion and Asian champion, was stretched to three games ...

Ryoyu Kobayashi made history on Sunday by becoming the first non-European to win the men's ski jumping World Cup overall title. Kobayashi finished fifth in the large hill event in Oslo, but nevertheless built an unassailable lead — 500 points over second-place Kamil Stoch of ...