Aonishiki’s victory at the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament on Jan. 25--his second consecutive championship—heightened his ...

BEIJING--Kao Miura of Japan won the Four Continents Figure Skating Championships on Sunday in his final tuneup for the Milan ...

FUKUI--Takato Ishida became the youngest governor in Japan following an election that was made necessary by the resignation ...

Mie Governor Katsuyuki Ichimi intends to review the prefectural government’s practice of hiring foreign nationals mainly for ...

Japanese panda fans gathered Sunday for the final public viewing at Tokyo's Ueno zoo before twins Xiao Xiao and Lei Lei ...

The day the giant pandas Kang Kang and Lan Lan arrived in Japan on Oct. 28, 1972, Tetsuko Kuroyanagi, the effervescent, ...

SINGAPORE--Gold surged past $5,000 per ounce early on Monday following a turbulent week where tensions over Greenland and ...

A pale purple light flashed repeatedly along a tube at a laboratory here, showing where plasma broke down a growing scourge ...

Five people died and 37 were injured in the heaviest snowfalls to hit Japan this season, and authorities warned about the continuing threat of avalanches and travel disruptions through Jan. 26.

A married couple who work as corporate employees moved from a rental apartment into a newly built detached house in Tokyo in ...

Yuta Koinuma converted to Islam, married a woman from the world largest Muslim country and has searched for work related to ...

KYOTO--The public will be offered rare access to temples, shrines and Buddhist statues normally closed off in the ancient ...