China and the United States agreed Saturday to conduct another round of trade negotiations in the coming week, as the world's two biggest economies seek to avoid another damaging tit-for-tat tariff ...

Some 29 percent of Japanese rice farmers said they are willing to increase their acreage for next year's harvest, a farm ministry survey showed Friday, as rice prices remain near record highs. The ...

Japanese workers are less motivated than their U.S. peers to acquire new skills, with their employers hardly offering such opportunities, according to a recent survey by a major global job website. A ...

President Donald Trump talks plainly, bluntly, often even coarsely. But it’s rare he drops an actual F-bomb as cameras are rolling. But that's what he did on Friday, when a journalist asked him about ...

Police in Iwate Prefecture wrongfully arrested a foreign worker earlier this week for not carrying his passport even though he had another proper ID with him, they said Friday. There is no legal ...

Shohei Ohtani has propelled the Los Angeles Dodgers back to the World Series with a two-way performance for the ages. Ohtani hit three mammoth homers and struck out 10 while pitching into the seventh ...

Eugenio Suárez hit a go-ahead grand slam after Cal Raleigh’s tying drive in a five-run eighth inning, giving the Seattle Mariners a 6-2 win over the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday and a 3-2 lead in the ...

Palestinians and aid workers are eagerly awaiting the reopening of the Rafah border crossing, which is the Gaza Strip’s lifeline for food and other aid and its only gateway to the outside world that ...

Wolfgang Bivour carefully emptied a basket of freshly collected mushrooms onto a forest floor covered with fallen autumn leaves. Brown-capped porcini and bay boletes lay beside slimy purple ...

Kinugawa Onsen in Tochigi Prefecture is a relaxing hot spring town surrounded by forested valleys and mountain views. Just two hours north of Tokyo, it’s famous for its soothing mineral-rich waters, ...

Hitoshi Kato, director of San-Ikukai Hospital which opened a “baby hatch” six months ago to accept newborns whose parents are unable to raise them. He said the baby hatch has accepted one newborn ...

Teruaki Sato broke the game open early with a three-run blast in the bottom of the first inning as the Hanshin Tigers punched their ticket to the Japan Series with a 4-0 win over the DeNA BayStars on ...