Schoolgirl swimmer Yu Zidi won her second gold of the Asian Games on Monday with the fastest time in the world this year, while a teenage badminton player became the first doping case. Yu's winning ...

A 3-year-old boy has died after being caught up in a multi-vehicle accident in Fukuoka City on Sunday. Police have arrested a 68-year-old man on suspicion of dangerous driving resulting in injury.

Australia forecast on Monday that deaths would exceed births for the first time in the 2060s, a ‌demographic shift with far-reaching implications for an economy grappling with an aging population, ...

Faced with a worsening shortage of bus drivers, a Hiroshima transport company has turned to Indonesia for help, hiring two ...

President Donald Trump's administration has prepared sanctions against the entire International Criminal Court and plans to ...

President Donald Trump has renewed his attacks on the Federal Reserve after it hiked its benchmark interest rate Wednesday, ...

Japan's population aged 65 or older accounted for a record 29.6 percent of the total, the government estimated Sunday, with the proportion remaining the highest among countries with populations ...

The town of Yugawara in Kanagawa Prefecture seems like it should be a very tranquil place. A seaside hot spring town, with baths and inns dotting the cityscape as it stretches up into the mountains as ...

Once a thriving merchant center, Nagahama reinvented its struggling city center around an unlikely new identity — artisanal glassmaking.

Japan’s prefectural governors are intensifying their campaign for onsen culture to be recognized as a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2030 with the hosting of the inaugural Onsen Hot Spring ...

The approval rating for Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's newly reshuffled cabinet rose to 53 percent in a Kyodo News poll, while many respondents said a planned temporary consumption tax cut would have ...

The sneaker company Converse has removed a social media ad that sparked outrage among critics who viewed it as evoking the Ku ...