Up-and-coming No. 4 maegashira Hakuoho sprang a stunning upset to knock new yokozuna Onosato off the top of the leaderboard ...

All train services on the Yamanote loop line in central Tokyo were temporarily suspended Sunday afternoon after a passenger's ...

Japan is on track to achieve its target of boosting defense spending to 2 percent of gross domestic product in the next two ...

Women lining up for restrooms at train stations and other crowded public facilities is a common sight in Japan, while men ...

Voting got underway on Sunday in Japan's House of Councillors election, with all eyes on whether the ruling coalition can ...

Japan's central and local governments are required under a new law to take steps to promote the use of sign language, aiming ...

The Chicago Bulls have signed Japanese men's national basketball team guard Yuki Kawamura to a two-way contract for the ...

Japanese electronics maker Murata Manufacturing Co., Waseda University and two other companies teamed up to develop humanoid ...

Baseball Hall of Famer Ichiro Suzuki said Friday he expects to get nervous when he makes a speech in English during the July ...

KYODO NEWS- Jul 20, 2025 - 09:02All,Japan,World TOKYO - The following is the latest list of selected news summaries by Kyodo ...

Hitomi Obara, the 2012 London Olympics gold medalist in the women's 48-kilogram wrestling, died Friday of unspecified causes, ...

Soil collected in decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex was transported to central Tokyo ...