Some roads in Fukuoka Prefecture were flooded, leading to a two-hour delay to the start of voting in the city of Kurume.

The bodies of 19 people were found on staircases just in front of the door.

The hike is expected to generate an additional ¥5.7 trillion in annual revenue, of which ¥2.8 trillion will be used to defray the national debt.

U.S. national security adviser John Bolton left for Japan and South Korea on Saturday, with a U.S. plan to form a multinational coalition to safeguard commercial shipping in the Middle East possibly on the agenda. Bolton is traveling to the two Asian countries "to continue ...

A former Russian arms tycoon who had connections at the highest levels of the Kremlin is a major donor to Britain's ruling Conservative Party and counts himself a friend of the man expected to be the country's next prime minister. Alexander Temerko, who forged close ...

Joint U.S.-South Korean military exercises scheduled for next month are going ahead, a top Seoul official said Saturday, despite a threat by North Korea to boycott working-level talks with Washington and possibly restart nuclear and longer-range missile tests. "As far as I know, President (Donald) ...

Hiroyuki Miyasako, a member of popular comedy duo Ameagari Kesshitai, offered an apology at a news conference Saturday for performing at an event hosted by an organized crime group and receiving money from it. "I would like to apologize to everyone," Miyasako, who had his ...

The Philippines has officially adopted a strategy to prevent and counter violent extremism as officials seek to avoid a repeat of one of the country's most prominent acts of terrorism in recent history, the May 2017 siege of Marawi City by pro-Islamic State fighters. Philippine ...

Britain on Saturday denounced Iran's seizure of a British-flagged oil tanker in the Gulf as a "hostile act" and rejected Tehran's explanation that it seized the vessel because it had been involved in an accident. Iran's Revolutionary Guard posted a video online showing speedboats pulling ...

With countries such as South Korea leading the way, a new age of slow growth and increased dependency burdens is in the offing.

The purchase of a Russian missile defense is a severe blow to the alliance, but losing a key member would be worse.

Peruvian Ambassador to Japan Harold Forsyth considers food a distinctive feature of his country.

"Fashion and costume can offer freedom, protection, power. Sometimes they can even change the world." So says Chiaki Shimizu, a textile designer who is on a mission to prove that fashion is an underutilized resource for social change. Pull on a favorite sweater and feel the ...

As I made my way up the steep road to Kakurin Temple — aka Temple No. 20, I realized how foolish I had been to have bought a bicycle. Rising at dawn, I had ticked off temples 18 and 19 of the 88-temple Shikoku ...

This sweet little girl came to ARK a long time ago and, for no good reason, she's still at the shelter. It seems she has simply been overlooked. Her name is Makeup and, though it may seem odd at first, it actually describes her incredibly ...

Takeru Kobayashi, the "godfather of competitive eating" recounts how he devoured the American dream, until it chewed him up and spat him out again.

Atsuki Taneichi allowed two runs over five innings as the Chiba Lotte Marines scored seven first-inning runs in a 9-4 Pacific League win over the Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters on Sunday. The Fighters' loss was their first since the all-star break and snapped a five-game ...

The Japanese men's and women's 4x100-meter freestyle relay teams each secured 2020 Olympic berths at the swimming world championships on Sunday. Japan finished ninth and fifth in the respective men's and women's 4x100 qualifier in Gwangju, South Korea to earn one of the Tokyo 2020 ...

Yuki Fukushima and Sayaka Hirota defended their Indonesia Open women's doubles title on Sunday by defeating Japanese compatriots and reigning Olympic champions Misaki Matsutomo and Ayaka Takahashi. In women's singles, Japan's Akane Yamaguchi, won her first title here, defeating India's Olympic silver medalist Pusarla Venkata ...

Highly touted right-handed pitcher Roki Sasaki was clocked at 160 kph (99.4 mph) on Sunday for Ofunato High School in the fourth round of Iwate Prefecture's summer tournament. The third-year student, who was clocked at 163 kph at an April training camp, struck out 21 ...

Yokozuna Kakuryu won his sixth top-division title by defeating Hakuho at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Sunday and avoiding a playoff with the all-time championship record holder. Kakuryu (14-1) summoned every ounce of his strength to fight off an attack from his yokozuna colleague, ...

The Japan Sumo Association's highest authority is the chairman of its board of directors. The current occupant is 56-year-old Hakkaku, who has been in power since 2015. Like the majority of his predecessors, Hakkaku is a former yokozuna. Known as Hokutoumi when at that rank, he won ...

Yuki Koike clocked 9.98 seconds in the men's 100-meter race at the Muller Anniversary Games on Saturday to become the third Japanese sprinter to break the 10-second barrier. Koike shaved 0.6 seconds off his personal best to place fourth at the 10th event of the ...