A court has sentenced a man to one year in prison, suspended for three years, for abusing rabbits on an island in western ...

Japanese national basketball team standout Yuki Kawamura wraps up his NBA rookie season with 12 points, five assists and five ...

The population of Japanese nationals stood at 120.3 million as of October 2024, down a record 898,000 from a year earlier, a ...

How a focus on innovation over tradition in sake-brewing is leading the brewer of Dassai sake on a journey to the Moon.

Rory McIlroy completed his career Grand Slam with a birdie on the first playoff hole against Justin Rose at the Masters ...

Yuki Tsunoda finished ninth in his second race for Red Bull at the Bahrain Grand Prix on Sunday, securing his first two ...

Japan advances to the eight-team finals of the Billie Jean King Cup women's team tennis tournament by pulling out a 2-1 ...

A joint U.S.-Japan investigation team was dispatched for the first time in 2024 to Iwoto Island, formerly known as Iwojima, ...

The World Exposition in Osaka opens, with organizers hoping the six-month event focused on designing a sustainable future ...

A spirits producers association is seeking to have its standards for Japanese whisky given legal force to stop products that ...

Dignitaries including Emperor Naruhito and Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba attended the opening ceremony for the 2025 World ...

Most people in Japan expect U.S. President Donald Trump's higher import tariffs to increase their living costs, a Kyodo News ...