The Yomiuri Shimbun will hold the first game of the 50th Kisei title series — the most prestigious title in the world of Go — in Hawaii, with special sponsorship from Suntory Holdings Ltd. It will ...

The Pacific League champion Fukuoka SoftBank Hawks advanced on Monday to the Japan Series championship which opens on Oct. 25 ...

SEOUL ― South Korean Ambassador to Japan Lee Hyuk said at the National Assembly on Saturday that South Korea plans to tour ...

Cold air flowing over Hokkaido chilled the region Monday, leaving roads and roadside trees on Nakayama Pass south of Sapporo ...

Takashimaya, a department store founded in Kyoto during the late Edo period, opened its branch in Nihombashi, Tokyo, in 1933.

China’s economy expanded at the slowest annual pace in a year in July- September, growing 4.8%, weighed down by trade ...

The final day of the Grand Sumo Tournament in London took place on Sunday, with yokozuna Hoshoryu beating fellow yokozuna ...

A new smartphone app feature that blocks suspicious calls from overseas has been developed by the Metropolitan Police ...

Four men were attacked and injured apparently by a bear in an urban area around JR Yuzawa Station in Yuzawa, Akita Prefecture ...

Amazon’s cloud services unit AWS was hit by an outage on Monday that took down several popular apps including Fortnite and ...

Komeito’s decision to end its coalition with the Liberal Democratic Party has caused bewilderment in the party’s branches.

A famous Ukrainian chef is visiting Japan in conjunction with the Ukraine Mine Action Conference, which starts in Tokyo on ...