With just one month to go until the World Exposition in Osaka opens, predictions of a nearly 3 trillion yen ($20 billion) ...

Three-time MVP Shohei Ohtani will begin his eighth Major League Baseball season on home soil next week following a historic 50-home run, 50-stolen base campaign for the Los Angeles Dodgers last year.

Japanese boxing superstar Naoya Inoue will fight in Las Vegas for the first time in four years when he defends his undisputed super bantamweight world championship against American Ramon Cardenas on ...

Canada's Alimentation Couche-Tard Inc., the operator of Circle K convenience stores, says that its discussions with Seven & i Holdings Co. to acquire the Japanese rival have been "friendly" and that ...

The young woman who was killed while livestreaming on a street in downtown Tokyo was stabbed more than 30 times, according to police, suggesting the alleged assailant held a strong grudge against her.

The foreign ministers of the Group of Seven wealthy democracies gather in a small Canadian resort to discuss major global affairs, ranging from efforts to end Russia's war in Ukraine to how to deal ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba is arranging to attend a memorial service later this month at the site of a fierce World War II battle with the United States on Iwoto Island, sources close to ...

Ozeki Onosato and komusubi Abi lost their first bouts at the Spring Grand Sumo Tournament, leaving two rank-and-filers as the only unbeaten wrestlers after four days.

Many major Japanese companies, including Toyota Motor Corp., fully meet the wage hike demands of their labor unions, which have been calling for substantial raises to address surging prices amid ...

Multiple bodies have been found in the wreckage of two Maritime Self-Defense Force patrol helicopters salvaged from the Pacific Ocean, the MSDF says, after they fatally collided in April 2024.

Philippine authorities serve an arrest warrant issued by the International Criminal Court against former President Rodrigo ...