Eight of the 125 successful candidates in the July House of Councillors election believe Japan should arm itself with nuclear ...

Taiwan President Lai Ching-te on Tuesday reaffirmed that next year's defense budget is set to exceed 3 percent of gross ...

Bandai Co.'s digital pet Tamagotchi, which will celebrate its 30th anniversary in 2026, is experiencing a new wave of ...

Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining Japanese survivors are increasingly f ...

Yusei Kikuchi held the Tampa Bay Rays to a run over six innings to earn the win as the Los Angeles Angels came from beh ...

A municipal assembly in Saitama Prefecture passed a resolution by majority vote urging an independent councilor to refrain ...

The annual National High School Baseball Championship is kicking off Aug. 5 at the famed Koshien stadium in Hyogo Prefecture ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. (TEPCO) has revised its schedule for decommissioning the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear ...

Japan on Tuesday logged a new national record temperature of 41.8 C in Isesaki, Gunma Prefecture, exceeding the previous high ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plans to announce Tuesday a major shift in rice policy -- from curbing output to boosting it -- ...

Drought brought by a heatwave and light rainfall this summer have adversely affected rice plants, orchard trees, vegetables ...

A small island in Hakata Bay in southwest Japan has opened a convenience store, becoming the first of 10 inhabited islands in ...