The welfare ministry is moving to make permanent a temporary measure that allows part-time workers to remain dependents even ...

In earthquake-hit areas of central Japan's Noto Peninsula, a man from Iwate Prefecture has been serving warm coffee to people ...

Rookies from the Rakuten Eagles visited Minamisanriku, one of the places devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunam ...

Ozeki Hoshoryu handed No. 3 maegashira Oho his first defeat of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament after seven days on ...

Shizuoka Blue Revs first-year scrumhalf Shuntaro Kitamura showed a knack for finding space with a pair of early tries in a ...

Former Japan and Basel forward Yoichiro Kakitani has decided to retire at 35, his current J-League second-division club ...

Right-hander Koyo Aoyagi has signed a minor league contract as a non-roster spring-training invitee with the Philadelphia ...

Three individuals were arrested on Jan. 16 for allegedly defrauding a Tokyo woman in her 70s of over 30 million yen (approx.

The resolution warned of the potential for more serious accidents if such flights continue. It urged the Japanese prime ...

SHIMOSUWA, Nagano -- A rare Shinto "porridge ritual" to predict the state of society and harvests for the year was held from ...

Roki Sasaki's move to MLB from the Lotte Marines at the age of 23 marks a landmark change in the dynamic that exists between ...

A Chinese court is set to sentence a man next week over a knife attack near Shanghai last June in which a Japanese mother and ...