Grand Slam winner Naomi Osaka withdraws from the Japan Open through injury as tennis players continue to struggle.

The Japan Innovation Party and the Liberal Democratic Party made "big progress" in talks towards a possible coalition, party ...

The figures do not include a suspected bear attack involving a 60-year-old hot spring worker who went missing on Thursday ...

School closures and hospitalizations from an unexpected early spike in flu cases in Japan has experts concerned about what ...

Seven people have died since April this year - the highest number since figures started being recorded in 2006, officials say ...

Sanae Takaichi, a foreign policy hawk who is vying to become Japan’s next prime minister, opted not to pray at a shrine in ...

The Japanese Diet is scheduled to vote on the nation's next prime minister on Tuesday, which has political parties angling to ...

Liberal Democratic Party leader Sanae Takaichi's bid to become Japan's first female prime minister regained momentum this ...

Canada's Leylah Fernandez is off to the semifinals of the Japan Open tennis tournament after beating Slovakia's Rebecca ...

He offered a “heartfelt apology” to the victims of Japan’s “colonial rule and aggression” in Asia. Ahead of the 70th ...

The Grand Sumo Tournament is rumbling London's iconic Royal Albert Hall in a rare foreign foray for Japan's centuries-old ...