Her breast cancer was discovered at an early stage by the Imperial Household Agency’s hospital.

Attendees at Comic Market, the nation's largest fair for self-published manga, showed support for the arson-hit Kyoto Animation Co. on Friday in Tokyo by raising funds for the studio through sales of exhibitors' creations. The organizers of the four-day fair, which opened Friday and is ...

Although Nara has become a favorite of international tourists in recent years, the city, which served as the nation's ancient capital from 710 to 784, has historically been a bit off the beaten path. Heijokyo, or Heijo Palace, as Nara was then known, was the ...

Not everyone needs to become a vegetarian, much less vegan, to keep the planet from overheating, but it would probably make things a lot easier if they did. That is the ambiguous and unsatisfying conclusion of the most comprehensive report ever compiled on the link ...

A record 5,160 business facilities employing foreign technical intern trainees were told in 2018 to correct practices that violated labor-related laws, the labor ministry has said. The number shot up from 4,226 in 2017, in line with an increase in foreigners working under the country's ...

Nagasaki marked the 74th anniversary Friday of the atomic bombing of the city, with Mayor Tomihisa Taue using the memorial ceremony to call on the government to immediately sign a U.N. treaty banning nuclear weapons. "As the only country in the world to have experienced ...

Prime Minister Narendra Modi's vision of a Hindu India has leaped forward with his government's decision to subsume Muslim-majority Kashmir into the federal government by eliminating its special status and allowing anyone to buy property and move into the state, raising fears among residents ...

Oil-reliant Tokyo is looking to compromise because it doesn’t want to offend Tehran by formally joining Washington’s shipping coalition in the Strait of Hormuz.

Pro-democracy activists kicked off three days of rallies at Hong Kong's airport on Friday, hoping to win international support from arriving passengers as the protests that have rocked the city enter a third month. The rallies, promoted on social media with a mock boarding pass ...

Consumer spending remains resilient, but the slowdown in exports is taking its toll, the government says.

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Friday projected that the storage tanks for the treated contaminated water at its Fukushima No. 1 nuclear plant would reach full capacity in three years despite plans to expand storage space, complicating the government's efforts to tackle ...

Scandal-hit artists' agency Yoshimoto Kogyo Co. is being urged to exchange written contracts with the comedians, actors and athletes on its books. The recommendation came after the first meeting of a management advisory panel that Yoshimoto set up after the revelation that several of its ...

A worker at a Tokyo Olympics construction site was found unconscious Thursday and was later confirmed dead at a hospital, the Tokyo Organizing Committee said, with police saying heatstroke may have been the cause. Soaring temperatures have killed at least 57 people across the country ...

Two people were killed and a nearby city reported a spike in radiation levels when a rocket engine blew up at a testing site in northern Russia on Thursday, forcing authorities to shut down part of a bay in the White Sea to shipping. The ...

China has a powerful trade-war weapon: an overwhelming dominance in the production of rare earths.

Today's refugee wave is a direct consequence of U.S. interference in Latin America's political and economic development.

Get your fill in Yokohama, home to Chinatown and Cup Noodles.

There wasn't all that much love triangle drama this week and I am so okay with that. Instead, we got an eyeful of Shohei, Kaori dealing with a mini existential crisis and the appearance of an advice-dispensing silver fox. But first, guys, is Shohei a ...

Country legend Willie Nelson has canceled the rest of his tour set to run for 30 more shows over a breathing problem. "To my fans, I'm sorry to cancel my tour, but I have a breathing problem that I need to have my doctor check ...

Around a thousand Beatles fans came together in London on Thursday to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the band making their iconic zebra crossing picture for the "Abbey Road" album cover. Beatlemania broke out as fans mobbed the pedestrian crossing outside the Abbey Road Studios, ...

The Yomiuri Giants got knocked down. The Tokyo Yakult Swallows, however, didn't quite knock the Kyojin out. Kazuma Okamoto hit a game-tying three run homer in the eighth and Yoshiyuki Kamei won it with a pinch-hit sacrifice fly in the 10th inning as Yomiuri surged late ...

With the Rugby World Cup just six weeks away, Japan will look to put the finishing touches on its preparations for the global showpiece against the United States in the Pacific Nations Cup in Suva, Fiji, on Saturday. With both sides winning their first ...

Fresh off a surprise win on her major debut at the Women's British Open, 20-year-old Hinako Shibuno stole the spotlight in the first round of the Hokkaido Meiji Cup on Friday. Rainy conditions did not stop fans from turning out to see Japan's newest golf ...

With less than three weeks to go before the 2019 Rugby World Cup coaches name their final squads, and 41 days before the tournament kicks off in Tokyo, it is a nervous time for players. While warm-up games — and there are plenty this weekend ...

Australia coach Michael Cheika has made four changes to his starting side for Saturday's Rugby Championship and Bledisloe Cup match against New Zealand, including giving utility James O'Connor his first test start since 2013. It also marks O'Connor's first start in the centers following a ...

England head coach Eddie Jones said four warm-up matches ahead of the Rugby World Cup will allow his side to fine-tune its game to the extent it will be ready to win the trophy for a second time. The 59-year-old Australian — who was on ...

Ai Yoshida and Miho Yoshioka teamed up on Friday to finish second in the women's 470 class world championships, making them the first Japanese sailors to earn spots in next year's Tokyo Olympics. In the waters near the Enoshima Yacht Harbor that will host the ...

Blue Jays rookie Bo Bichette had fitting competition during a record-setting first game in Toronto — a Yankees lineup led by a player plenty familiar with Rogers Centre. Gio Urshela hit two home runs for the second straight game and New York outslugged Bichette and ...

Major League Baseball is going to build it — and the White Sox and Yankees are coming to Iowa. The Chicago White Sox will play the New York Yankees next summer at the site in eastern Iowa where the movie "Field of Dreams" was filmed, ...

Rosie Ruiz, the Boston Marathon course-cutter who was stripped of her victory in the 1980 race and went on to become an enduring symbol of cheating in sports, has died. She was 66. Ruiz, who was also known as Rosie Vivas, died in Florida of ...

Serena Williams and Naomi Osaka advanced to the Rogers Cup quarterfinals on Thursday to set up their first meeting since the American's infamous row with an umpire overshadowed last year's U.S. Open final. Osaka won her first career Grand Slam at Flushing Meadows but the ...

Formula One has extended the Mexican Grand Prix through 2022, keeping a race that draws some of the season's biggest crowds on the calendar. The Mexican Grand Prix is in the final year of its original five-year contract and there were doubts about its future ...

Manchester City winger Leroy Sane is facing a lengthy layoff with anterior cruciate ligament damage in his right knee, the team announced on Thursday. City said the German, who limped off in the early stages of Sunday's Community Shield win over Liverpool, will undergo surgery ...

Troy Merritt isn't obsessed with his position in the FedEx Cup and what he needs to advance in the PGA Tour's postseason. He figures the best solution is good golf, and he delivered his best round of the year Thursday in The Northern Trust. Merritt ...