Over the past year and a half or so, Japan has held three national elections, and after each result a familiar postmortem has ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese startup plans to send a spherical robot inspired by Haro from the classic anime series "Mobile ...

On a recent weekday, around 50 people gathered outside the headquarters of a Chinese mobile internet company, waiting to get ...

A bus crashed into a guardrail on an expressway in the northeastern prefecture of Fukushima on Wednesday, killing a teenager ...

Manjiro became close to Captain William H. Whitfield of the American whaling ship that rescued him from drifting, then lived ...

Garments designed by Japanese artist Tamae Hirokawa, who is known for creating seamless knitwear based on the concept of ...

An Ezo red fox is raising its cubs on an embankment near a residential area in the city of Sapporo, Hokkaido. The six young ...

Toronto Blue Jays rookie Kazuma Okamoto hit his 10th home run of the season in a 4-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Tuesday.

Footage obtained by The Associated Press of a cruise ship at the center of a rare-virus outbreak shows deserted decks and ga ...

Japan and the Philippines agreed Tuesday to establish a framework for working-level talks on the export of used destroyers to ...

Nissan Motor Co. is planning to cut 900 jobs across Europe, or about 10 percent of its regional workforce, and review some of ...

Russian drone and missile strikes carried out overnight and later on Tuesday killed at least 22 people and wounded more than ...