U.S. President Joe Biden's third face-to-face meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping took place as widely expected, capping his multiyear efforts to put guardrails on the increasingly tense ...

Shuntaro Tanikawa, a leading poet in postwar Japan also known for his translations of the U.S. cartoon series "Peanuts" and the British "Mother Goose" nursery rhymes, has died, according to sources cl ...

Japan and Britain have agreed to launch a new framework for dialogue among their economic and foreign ministers to discuss trade, security and other shared challenges.

Japan completed its unbeaten run in the opening round of the Premier12 baseball tournament Monday with an 11-3 rout of the ...

A proposal by Yamanashi Prefecture to build a light rail connection to the fifth station on Mt. Fuji has been given up amid ...

Former Major League Baseball slugger Alex Rodriguez said Monday that Los Angeles Dodgers two-way star Shohei Ohtani is the ...

Ozeki Hoshoryu reeled off another commanding victory Monday at the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament as the leading pack was ...

Former WBA super flyweight champion Kazuto Ioka will fight a rematch on New Year's Eve against Argentine boxer Fernando ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba missed a group photo session at the APEC summit in Peru's capital of Lima, with the ...

Japan agreed Sunday that its Ground Self-Defense Force will regularly take part in annual joint drills in Australia also ...

Defending champion Japan secures its place in the four-team Super Round of the Premier12 tournament with a 7-6 victory over ...

Former Hyogo Gov. Motohiko Saito secures reelection in the gubernatorial election in western Japan, held after he lost his ...