The number of foreign visitors to Japan in May rose 21.5 percent from a year earlier to 3.7 million, a record for the month, ...

There seems to be no end to social media-based investment and romance scams in Mie Prefecture. According to prefectural ...

Seiya Suzuki hit a three-run home run to steer the Chicago Cubs to a 5-3 comeback win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday, ...

Police in Japan's northernmost prefecture of Hokkaido are asking drivers to be cautious after a collision between a ...

Shohei Ohtani was hit by a pitch from San Diego Padres starter Randy Vasquez in the third inning Tuesday night, and Los ...

Japan's House of Representatives on Wednesday approved a resolution, proposed by several opposition parties, to dismiss a ...

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NUMAZU, Shizuoka -- Members of the calligraphy club at a local high school performed a live calligraphy demonstration on ...

So far, Britain is the only major nation that has formally concluded a tariff deal with the United States. Recently, U.S.

Jun Saito from Saitama's Omiya Ward, who had earlier been arrested on suspicion of theft, was served a fresh arrest warrant ...

JR East said Wednesday three more bullet trains experienced malfunctions the previous day when shinkansen services were ...

BEIJING (Kyodo) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Sergey Shoigu, Russia's top security official, discussed "important ...