Taiwan won a historic victory Sunday when Chen Chieh-hsien beat previously undefeated Japan with his glove and bat to win the ...

Former New York Yankees pitcher Masahiro Tanaka announced on his YouTube channel Sunday that he will leave the Pacific League ...

Kotozakura outwrestled fellow ozeki Hoshoryu in the winner-take-all closing bout Sunday at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament ...

Sculptor Etsuro Sotoo becomes the first Japanese to be awarded the Ratzinger Prize by a Vatican City foundation for his work ...

MUFG Bank has fired an employee for allegedly stealing assets worth between 1 billion ($6 million) and 2 billion yen from ...

Just as with wine, aging a sake can produce a smoother drink, but there is a cost in maintaining the right conditions for ...

Dozens of members of Nihon Hidankyo, Japan's leading group of atomic bomb survivors that won this year's Nobel Peace Prize, ...

Japan's Shun Sato win the men's competition at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating's Cup of China, and compatriot Mone Chiba ...

Samurai Japan took a 4-0 first-inning lead behind lefty Takahisa Hayakawa, only for Taiwan to threaten to overturn the game ...

China has told Japan it intends to remove a buoy it installed inside Japan's exclusive economic zone near the Senkaku Islands ...

South Korea says it will not send any officials to a memorial event to be held on Japan's Sado Island to commemorate laborers ...

With a series of incidents on the rise of people being killed or injured due to reckless driving in Japan, the government is moving to clarify criminal penalties in so-called dangerous driving cases.