More than 90% of elementary school principals want lower-grade students to use paper textbooks, even as the country moves toward greater adoption of digital versions, according to a new Yomiuri ...

Shinnosuke Abe, the manager of the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball team, was arrested on Monday night for allegedly assaulting his 18-year-old daughter at their family home in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo ...

Olympic gold medal-winning figure skating duo Riku Miura and Ryuichi Kihara performed a lift as they threw out the ceremonial first pitch at a Los Angeles Dodgers–Colorado Rockies baseball game in Los ...

Japan’s Nikkei share average fell on Tuesday, retreating from a record high in the previous session, as investors locked in ...

Eye-catching sculptures of place names can now be seen at train stations and tourist spots: such as “TOKYO” on the site of the former Olympic and Paralympic Village in Tokyo’s Harumi Wharf; “UENO,” ...

North Korea launched multiple close-range ballistic missiles toward the sea on Tuesday, South Korea’s military said, the latest in a series of weapons demonstrations by North Korea this year.

Shinnosuke Abe, the manager of the Yomiuri Giants professional baseball team, was arrested for allegedly assaulting his 18-year-old daughter at his family home in Shibuya Ward, Tokyo, on Monday night.

Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara, speaking at a press conference on Monday, refrained from saying anything about the May 14 U.S.-China summit meeting, in which Chinese President Xi Jinping ...

A deer was spotted at Kyoto Gyoen National Garden in central Kyoto on Monday morning. After being chased inside the park by police officers and Kyoto prefectural and city government officials for ...

Editorial [posttime] JST, [postdate] Actresses from Japan and France were awarded honors at a prestigious international film festival. A film featuring dialogue between these two women from different ...

Munetaka Murakami and Drew Romo homered to back six strong innings from Anthony Kay as the Chicago White Sox defeated the visiting Minnesota Twins 3-1 on Monday.

Japan’s core inflation as measured by a new central bank gauge accelerated in April and blew past its 2% ‌target, data showed on Tuesday, ⁠helping make the case for an interest rate hike as soon as ...