Sorato Shimizu set an under-18 world record in the men's 100-meter sprint on Saturday, clocking 10.00 seconds at Japan's inter high school athletic meeting.

A 32-year-old man was fatally stabbed Friday, allegedly by his colleague, at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo's busy Ikebukuro area where he worked, police said.

The operator of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant has submitted a plan to demolish a building next to the No. 3 reactor to make way for the removal of radioactive fuel debris, a source ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said on Friday that he wants to oversee the "steady" implementation of a recently clinched trade deal with the United States, as the embattled leader met with opposition ...

Japan's top government spokesman said Friday it is "regrettable" that the Self-Defense Forces were forced to scramble fighter jets after a South Korean military airplane entered the Japanese air ...

Sony Group Corp. will take a 2.5 percent stake in major Japanese toymaker Bandai Namco Holdings Inc. for 68 billion yen ($464 million) as they joined hands in the anime business, the two companies ...

A Japanese government panel on Thursday broadly agreed to allow the creation of human embryos using eggs or sperm derived from pluripotent stem cells such as iPS cells, but only for research purposes ...

Spanish champions Barcelona said Wednesday they will not play their scheduled preseason game in Japan against J-League title holders Vissel Kobe because of "serious contractual breaches on behalf of ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's resignation is seen as inevitable following the governing coalition's major setback in the House of Councillors election, lawmakers said Wednesday, adding that ...

Tokyo stocks' key indexes ended up over 3 percent at one-year highs on Wednesday after Japan and the United States reached a trade deal with 15 percent U.S. tariffs on autos and other products, lower ...

Shohei Ohtani homered for the fourth straight game in the Los Angeles Dodgers' 10-7 loss to the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, making him the first Japanese player to hit a home run in four consecutive ...

What can we do to avoid heatstroke while working? Three Kyodo News reporters -- Junko Horiuchi, Mayuka Ueda and Peter Masheter -- talk about new government rules requiring employers to take measures ...