Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger in 1974 asked about the possibility of drawing the Chinese military toward the ...

Seiya Suzuki became the third Japanese player to hit 30 home runs in a Major League Baseball season on Friday, reaching the ...

Ozeki Kotozakura pulled out of the Autumn Grand Sumo Tournament on Saturday with right knee ligament damage requiring three ...

"The notion that reinforced concrete apartment residents can't use evacuation centers is incorrect," said Masaki Tanaka, ...

The Okayama Prefecture city of Setouchi is famous for its olives, oysters, and Mediterranean climate, and the surrounding ...

The probability of a megaquake occurring in the Nankai Trough within the next 30 years has been revised from 80 percent to a ...

Japanese pika, small animals that live only in high mountains in Hokkaido, are getting ready for winter on Mount Kurodake.

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Nexstar Media Group and Sinclair Broadcast Group brought Jimmy Kimmel's late-night talk show back to their local TV stations ...

Senate Majority Leader John Thune is rejecting Democratic demands on health care as unserious but says a government shutdown ...

The first single malt Japanese whisky crafted in Kumamoto Prefecture is set to debut in October, and to celebrate the ...