OSAKA -- Universal Studios Japan (USJ) will open "Donkey Kong Country," a new area themed on Nintendo Co.'s popular video ...

By exploring new areas and co-creating with new partners, we will expand the IP business market from Japan to the entire ...

Ishirō Honda's momentous 1954 monster film was born out of a national tragedy in Japan. It has a bleak message for humanity ...

part of a new government program aimed at raising the global rankings of Japanese universities. Of the 10 universities that applied, including Japan's top two, the university in the northeastern ...

Areas in Sardinia, Okinawa and Greece are supposedly home to unusual numbers of centenarians. Scientists are studying them to ...

Miki Yamamoto's work isn't what most people think of when they hear the word "manga." Eschewing a typical manga style, the ...

The turf races on Saturday's Breeders' Cup program feature horses from around the world against some surprisingly strong American opponents.

Shohei Ohtani has been a superstar in Japan for more than a decade ... In the United States, the World Series between the New York Yankees and Los Angeles Dodgers is a matchup featuring the ...

Republican Donald J. Trump, 78, the oldest to seek the US presidency, appears to be winning, and handily, over the Democratic Party’s presidential amateur, Kamala Harris, 60. Trump is leading in the ...

Baseball was first introduced to Japan by Horace Wilson, an American English ... a world free of nuclear weapons.” It’s a culmination of nearly 70 years of work. Japan’s new prime minister ...

In a new documentary, Shiori Ito recounts her yearslong crusade for justice in Japan after accusing a powerful ... her personal investigation to the world. A sense of personal urgency informs ...

the industrialized nation has not taken part in any wars around the world – unlike another losing nation, Germany. Against this backdrop, the political career of Japan's new Prime Minister ...