After twice finishing runner-up, track cyclist Mina Sato broke through for Japan's maiden women's keirin title at the world ...

Shohei Ohtani and the Los Angeles Dodgers punched their ticket to Major League Baseball's World Series with an emphatic 10-5 ...

The Philippines' reigning club football champions have taken on a distinctly Japanese influence as they seek to make an ...

Expectations are growing that Yoshihiko Noda, the new leader of the main opposition party, could mount a strong challenge in ...

A local police chief in Japan on Monday apologized in person to an 88-year-old man who spent nearly half a century on death row before being acquitted in a retrial over a 1966 quadruple murder case.

Former world No. 1 Naomi Osaka says she will skip the Billie Jean King Cup team tennis finals next month in Spain because of ...

The defense chiefs of Japan, Britain, and Italy have agreed to accelerate their planned joint development of a ...

Support for the main opposition party, the Constitutional Democratic Party of Japan, and other parties out of power is ...

Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto is sworn in, becoming the first new leader of Southeast Asia's largest democracy in a ...

Japan's former Empress Michiko turns 90, marking the occasion alongside husband former Emperor Akihito who reached the ...

New Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani and U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin agree to further enhance the deterrence ...

Guard Yuki Kawamura signs a two-way contract with the Memphis Grizzlies, becoming the first Japanese player from the ...