Traditionally made, chilled "kan-somen" noodles shimmered in the winter cold in mid-January as their annual production peaked on Shodo Island in western Japan's Seto Inland Sea.

Ichiro Suzuki, the first Japanese-born player elected to Major League Baseball's Hall of Fame, reacted humorously Thursday to the one vote that he did not secure. The voting results Tuesd ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp., a partner of Nissan Motor Co., will not join a planned merger between Nissan and Honda Motor Co. that could potentially create the world's third-largest auto group, according ...

Ozeki Hoshoryu hands overnight leader Kinbozan his second defeat of the New Year Grand Sumo Tournament, but the wrestler from ...

A Chinese court has sentenced a man to death over a knife attack near Shanghai last June that injured a Japanese mother and ...

China says no abnormalities were found in seawater samples it independently collected near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi ...

Masahiro Nakai, a TV host who was a member of the former pop group SMAP and is embroiled in a sexual misconduct scandal, says ...

Facial recognition ticket gates will be introduced on Jan. 24 for some Keisei Electric Railway Co. trains connecting a major ...

No stranger to the devastation caused by natural disasters, Los Angeles Dodgers marquee signing Roki Sasaki voices his ...

Japan forward Ayase Ueda scored off the bench as Feyenoord stunned Bayern Munich 3-0 at home in the Champions League ...

U.S. President Donald Trump says he thinks his administration will have a "very good relationship" with China and all he wants regarding trade issues with the Asian power is "fairness." ...

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced the nominees for this year's awards, with a long-form documentary directed by Japanese journalist Shiori Ito about her own sexual assault ...