A foreign resident of Japan's capital takes a bite of a bun bought in a shopping street. They've just completed the ...

With the Women's Asian Cup under way in Australia, the players' union is calling on the Asian Football Confederation to ...

President Donald Trump said Saturday that the United States and Latin American countries are banding together to combat ...

A U.S. military UH-1 helicopter made an emergency landing at a baseball field in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Friday night ...

Seiya Suzuki blasted two home runs while Shohei Ohtani and Masataka Yoshida also went deep as Japan came from behind to beat ...

Japan's Mao Shimada won her fourth straight figure skating junior world championships on Saturday, becoming the first skat ...

Paris Fashion Week is delivering a forceful reminder of why it remains a capital of fashion, with blockbuster celebrity front ...

While new mothers are typically advised to only shower until their one-month postpartum checkup in Japan, bathing may not pose a problem, a r ...

By Magdalena Sepulveda, Director of the U.N. Research Institute for Social Development, Commissioner of the Independent Commission for the Reform of I ...

With Japan's rapidly aging population putting mounting pressure on medical and nursing care systems, local governments are inc ...

There have been a series of accidents in Hokkaido involving foreign tourists engaging in "backcountry skiing" -- or skiing off-piste or on uncompacted fresh snow. While Hokkaido Prefectural Police and ...

Satellite images, expert analysis, a U.S. official and public information released by the U.S. and Israeli militaries suggest ...