Every time a nuclear test was conducted abroad, Ichiro Moritaki (1901-1994) staged a sit-in in front of the Cenotaph for the ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is preparing to announce his resignation by August following the ruling Liberal Democratic ...

Japan will purchase $8 billion in U.S. farm and food goods, such as corn, soybeans, fertilizer and bioethanol, under a new ...

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What did the Aomori High School Baseball Federation ban Hirosaki Gakuin Seiai High School's baseball team from doing during ...

Shohei Ohtani matched a franchise record with a homer in the fifth straight game and Freddie Freeman drove in two runs with a ...

The Nikkei stock index briefly soared over 2 percent Thursday morning as investors kept buying on eased concern over the ...

Iwao Hakamada, who was acquitted in a retrial over a 1966 murder case in Shizuoka Prefecture, plans to file a damages suit ...

The Orix Buffaloes' Yuma Tongu and Kenya Wakatsuki homered at their home stadium as the Pacific League beat the Central ...

BARCELONA, Spain (AP) -- Barcelona said Wednesday it will not play its scheduled preseason game in Japan because of "serious ...

Right-wing populist political party Sanseito campaigned on a "Japanese First" platform and significantly increased its ...