Okinawa Shogaku won its first National High School Baseball Championship title at Koshien Stadium on Aug. 23, defeating Tokyo ...

Billed as “forever 17,” Hitomi Shiga is a legend in maid cafe culture in Tokyo’s Akihabara district. While dressing up in a ...

MANILA–Two suspects have been taken into custody in connection with the fatal shooting of two Japanese tourists here, local ...

An intense flash of light that briefly turned night into day over Mount Sakurajima in Kagoshima on Aug. 19 may have been ...

OSAKA—Visitors stranded in the sweltering heat at the Osaka Kansai Expo venue lashed out at organizers, saying they failed to ...

NAGASAKI--A hospital here has digitized the medical records of more than 50,000 people who survived the atomic bombing of the ...

BEIJING--The collapse of an under-construction railway bridge over a major river in China has killed at least 12 workers and ...

OSAKA—A ceiling collapse during firefighting efforts at the Aug. 18 blaze in the downtown Dotonbori district apparently ...

OSAKA—Two firefighters died and four others were injured after a fire broke out on Aug. 18 along the Dotonborigawa river in ...

A minicar covered in graffiti, a weather beaten sports car looking naked without tires and an automobile that appears to have ...

A historical novel published privately by a distant descendant of the Koka ninja clan has proved to be an unexpected hit ...

A photo of several Kyushu Shinkansen trains lined up on elevated track in an early morning “evacuation operation” during a ...