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The Ameyoko shopping road in Tokyo's Ueno district is crowded with shoppers buying food and other items ahead of the new year.

Four-time Grand Slam champion Naomi Osaka made a winning straight-sets start to her season Monday as she strives to rediscover the form that...

At least 60 people died in Ethiopia when a truck packed with passengers plunged into a river, authorities in the southern Sidama region said...

Kazuto Ioka's scheduled New Year's Eve title rematch in Tokyo against Fernando Martinez has been canceled after the Argentine WBA super flyw...

Global interest in Japanese residential real estate is perhaps at an all-time high. Japan offers property buyers a stable and transparent ec...

South Korean law enforcement officials on Monday requested a court warrant to detain impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol as they investigate w...

The Philadelphia Eagles clinched the NFC East division title on Sunday, handing the Dallas Cowboys a humiliating 41-7 defeat while the Buffa...

Jimmy Carter, the earnest Georgia peanut farmer who as U.S. president struggled with a bad economy and the Iran hostage crisis but brokered...

Anime and game fans attend the 105th ComicMarket Show in Tokyo on Sunday.

Anime and game fans attend the 105th ComicMarket Show in Tokyo on Sunday.

Japan's national high school soccer tournament is thriving after more than 100 years, attracting huge crowds, millions watching on TV and br...

Baseball superstar Shohei Ohtani and his wife Mamiko Tanaka are expecting their first child, the World Series winner announced Sunday."Can'...

South Korea's fire agency says that 62 people are dead after a plane caught fire during landing at an airport in the country's south.The fi...

A plane with malfunctioning landing gear veered off the runway, hit a fence and caught fire Sunday at an airport in southern South Korea, ki...

President-elect Donald Trump appears to be siding with Elon Musk and his other backers in the tech industry as a dispute over immigration vi...

One Mega Millions player has plenty of dough to ring in the New Year after drawing the winning number. After three months without anyone win...

Olivia Hussey, who starred as a teenage Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's 1968 film "Romeo and Juliet," garnering her a Golden Globe, died Frida...

Senior members of Canada's cabinet held talks Friday with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump's nominees to lead the departments of commerce a...

Arsenal began life without Bukayo Saka by beating Ipswich 1-0 to move into second place in the Premier League and cut Liverpool's lead to si...

Construction work continues off the Henoko coastal area in Nago, Okinawa Prefecture, on Friday, for the relocation of the U.S. Marine Corps'...

A majority of South Korea's parliament voted on Friday to impeach acting president Han Duck-soo.Prime Minister Han has been acting presiden...

South Korea's spy agency said Friday it had confirmed that a North Korean soldier sent to back Russia's war against Ukraine had been capture...

The number of influenza patients reported in Tokyo in the week ending Dec 22 has doubled from the previous week, exceeding the warning level...

Organizers said Friday that two Sydney to Hobart sailors have died at sea amid wild weather conditions that forced line honors favorite Mast...

Communities and firefighters across Australia’s second-most populous state were preparing Thursday for potentially devastating wild fires as...