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Reigning Olympic champion Ayumu Hirano punched his ticket to February's Milan-Cortina Winter Games on Friday as he led a ...

JEF United Chiba sealed their return to the J-League first division following a 16-year absence by beating Tokushima Vortis 1 ...

Japan's Nozomi Maruyama resumed her winning ways Friday with her fourth ski jumping World Cup victory of the season.

Masato Harada, a Japanese director known for films such as "Chronicle of My Mother" and "Climber's High" that explored ...

Japan's Miho Takagi won her first individual World Cup event of the season on Friday in the women's 1,500 meters to all but ...

Los Angeles Dodgers ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto is set to pitch for Japan at the World Baseball Classic in March, joining two-way ...

Northern and northeastern Japan was jolted by a magnitude 6.9 earthquake on Friday, triggering small tsunami waves along ...

Japan is considering allocating about 9 trillion yen ($58 billion) for next fiscal year's defense budget, including plans to ...

The Bank of Japan is set to raise its key policy rate to 0.75 percent from the current 0.50 percent at its two-day board ...

Robots have long been seen as a bad bet for Silicon Valley investors — too complicated, capital-intensive and “boring, ...

Japan's green tea exports in the first 10 months of this year reached the highest level in over 70 years on the back of the booming overseas market for matcha powder and the depreciation of the Japane ...