Nippon Ham Fighters manager Tsuyoshi Shinjo will stay at the helm next season, he said Thursday, the day of the Nippon ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is shedding momentum going into the Oct. 27 general election and may lose its ...

Around 2,000 North Korean soldiers are moving to western Russia near the Ukrainian border after completing training, a ...

Japan's 2023 Rugby World Cup captain, Kazuki Himeno, will return to the national team for the first time in a year after ...

The Pacific League's Rakuten Eagles won the right to negotiate with college shortstop Rui Muneyama, the most sought-after ...

Japan's Moyuka Uchijima went down to Paris Olympics gold medalist Zheng Qinwen of China 7-5, 6-0 in the second round of the ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- More than 30,000 people in Japan died of COVID-19 in the first year after most coronavirus-related ...

OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Construction of a life-sized Gundam robot statue from the popular Japanese sci-fi anime "Mobile Suit Gundam" ...

Undisputed super bantamweight boxing world champion Naoya Inoue is set to face the IBF's and WBO's top-ranked Australian ...

Some 468.5 billion yen (about $3.1 billion) of the 1.44 trillion yen (approx. $9.45 billion) in interest-free loans extended ...

The city of Shiroi, located in the northwestern part of Chiba Prefecture and known for its sprawling commuter towns, is home ...

The Nagoya High Court's Kanazawa branch has ordered a retrial for Shoshi Maekawa, 59, in the case of the murder of a junior ...