Hawaiian-born former ozeki Konishiki, the first wrestler from abroad to reach sumo's second-highest rank, revealed Monday ...

A Japanese court sentenced on Monday a former local assembly member to 19 years in prison for suffocating his wife to death ...

Safe deposit boxes, expected to be secure, have become the center of a shocking scandal in Japan: a bank employee had been ...

More than 2,500 people gathered here on Dec. 22 to protest against a spate of sexual assaults by U.S. servicemen stationed in ...

A clear gap between major izakaya chains and small businesses is emerging as Japanese-style pubs are seeing more bankruptcies ...

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A Japanese research team has announced the discovery of a substance in Holy Basil that inhibits the proliferation of the ...

Riken research institute is seen in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, in this file photo taken on Dec. 1, 2020. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- ...

Japan striker Koki Ogawa scored his sixth goal of the season in the Dutch Eredivisie on Sunday as NEC Nijmegen lost 4-1 away ...

MATSUDO, Japan (Kyodo) -- Ozeki Kotozakura said he will try to remain his "usual self" while bidding for yokozuna promotion ...

Newly returned national champion Kaori Sakamoto said Monday she will be focused on the bigger picture, including qualificatio ...

The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family's house on the Andaman Sea coast of ...