At least 90 people are dead and dozens more are missing after record-shattering torrential rains hit western and central Japan over the weekend, according to Japanese public broadcaster NHK. Millions ...

It's been an eventful year for Japanese whisky so far, to say the least. Several famed aged expressions are to be discontinued, while the craft distilling movement continues to rise in Japan, with new ...

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The 2018 FIFA World Cup gets underway again on Monday with a pair of Round of 16 matches that will feature Brazil vs. Mexico and Belgium vs. Japan. Both contests appear to be rather lopsided, at least ...

France and Japan both had qualifying meets for their international teams for the summer, with each country seeing new national records come out of their qualifying meets. Check out what records fell a ...

SARANSK, Russia — Yuya Osako had a surprise in store for those who gave Japan little chance of competing with Colombia at the World Cup. Osako’s gritty determination to set up one goal and his ...

BTS and TWICE both had an amazing year on the Billboard charts in Japan! On December 7, Billboard Japan published its annual year-end charts for 2018, and both group made multiple appearances in the ...

July 23, 2018, was a day unlike any seen before in Japan. It was the peak of a weekslong heat wave that smashed previous temperature records across the historically temperate nation. The heat started ...

Scoring multiple goals for only the fourth time in 18 World Cup matches, Japan stunned Colombia, one of the darlings from the 2014 World Cup, with a 2-1 victory in their Group H match Tuesday in ...

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TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese stocks will be largely flat in 2018 and then rise over 3 percent next year, in part supported by cheap valuations, but gains will be limited by a global economy hit by trade ...

As the only advanced industrial democracy that has closed its borders to unskilled migrant labor since the end of World War II, Japan has long been viewed as hostile to immigration. Although the ...