Two Asahi Shimbun reporters will accompany the 67th observation team to Antarctica departing from Japan in December.

A United Airlines passenger plane carrying 142 people and bound for the Philippine island of Cebu made an emergency landing in Osaka on Friday after an indicator showed a fire in the cargo room, ...

Nicknamed “The Shining Star of Losers Everywhere,” this beloved equine, famous for her 113-race losing streak, appeared at ...

NAGASAKI--Emperor Naruhito, Empress Masako and their daughter Princess Aiko visited a nursing care facility here on Sept. 13 ...

The woman whose genetic test in the 1980s led sports leaders to conclude it was too intrusive, not definitive enough and, ...

For years, a humble little railway crossing at Kamakura-Koko-Mae Station on the Enoshima Electric Railway Line here has ...

Sebastian Coe, the head of World Athletics, on Friday said the organization is sticking to its long-held position that ...

The race to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba as head of the Liberal Democratic Party is shaping up as a battle by five ...

Typhoon No. 15 made landfall in northern Wakayama Prefecture on Sept. 5, raising the risk of heavy rain and related disasters ...

Torrential rain pounded the Tokyo metropolitan area on Sept. 11, flooding buildings, disrupting transportation services and ...

Defense Minister Gen Nakatani announced that F-15 fighter jets from the Air Self-Defense Force will fly to the other side of ...

Major trading house Mitsui & Co., continuing its support for the Brazilian community in Japan, has started a scholarship ...