Blossom-clad branches of two Somei Yoshino cherry trees overlap to make a heart shape are seen a day before the trees reached ...

TOKYO -- Japan's Digital Minister Taro Kono appears to be desperate to promote "My Number health insurance cards" by urging ...

Japan is considering establishing a new framework for dialogue involving like-minded nations to discuss international ...

The Niigata District Court has handed down a ruling recognizing 26 of 45 plaintiffs as sufferers of Minamata disease and ...

Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train passengers will, after some 23 years, once again be able to zoom from point A to B in the ...

NEW YORK (Kyodo) -- Memphis Grizzlies swingman Yuta Watanabe said Friday he will play in his native Japan next season. The 29 ...

An Israeli airstrike on a house in Gaza's southernmost city killed at least nine people, six of them children, hospital auth ...

A 79-year-old woman makes the sign of the cross and, gripping her cane, leaves her home in a quaint village in northeast Ukra ...

The International Gymnastics Federation will not offer prize money to Olympic medalists now or in the future, its president ...

Yoshinobu Yamamoto struck out nine over six innings while surrendering four runs but did not figure in the decision for the ...

ASAHIKAWA, Hokkaido -- A company here promoting virtual idol "Mogami Kanane" has partnered with an anime production business ...

Starting this summer's climbing season on Mount Fuji, the maximum number of climbers per day on the Yoshida route will be ...