Yoichi Funabashi, the former editor in chief of The Asahi Shimbun, recently published a massive two-volume work that examines ...

Takeru Chiba saw greener pastures and a path to the professional ranks by heading overseas to play college soccer in the ...

Set to detonate about an hour to a week after impact, a bomb dropped in the later stages of World War II didn't explode for ...

During the off-season in 2017, Ohtani went to the United States, the home of baseball, to continue his “two-way” style of ...

MONTREAL—The Canadian suitor of Seven & i Holdings Co., parent of convenience store chain Seven-Eleven Japan Co., has ruled ...

Japan Post Co. announced it will release of a set of commemorative stamps featuring Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani ...

The dining service along Toyohashi Rail Road Co.’s Shinai Line is named Odensha, blending the words “oden” and “densha” ...

SAPPORO--Protesters denounced as hate speech an event here that claims the Ainu people are not indigenous to Japan, which ...

KYOTO--Kiyomizudera temple here, a UNESCO World Heritage site, has kicked off its special autumn nighttime viewing, ...

TOTTORI--To order a custom-made fountain pen from Ryo Yamamoto, expect to wait 18 months for delivery. Yamamoto, 50, said he ...

KOBE—Motohiko Saito emerged from scandal and won re-election as Hyogo governor in a poll called after he was forced to vacate ...

A second Australian teenager who fell critically ill after drinking tainted alcohol in Laos has died in a hospital in Bangkok ...