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Shohei Ohtani singled in the go-ahead run before stealing his 56th base of the season in the sixth inning and the Los Angeles Dodgers defeat...

New York City Mayor Eric Adams has been indicted after a federal corruption investigation, but the indictment is sealed and it is unclear wh...

A fairly new addition to the lexicon of foreign word borrowings in Japanese is waa-hori, short for "working holiday."Those who travel to Au...

An arbitration board has ruled that U.S. Steel may proceed with its proposed acquisition by Nippon Steel, a deal that faces strong oppositio...

Sumo wrestler Onosato celebrates at his Nishonoseki stable in Ami, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Wednesday, following his promotion to the sport's...

Rescuers on Wednesday recovered the body of a ninth victim of severe floods which battered parts of Ishikawa Prefecture last week, local med...

The Houston Astros clinched their fourth straight AL West title with a 4-3 win over the Seattle Mariners on Tuesday night, overcoming a terr...

Since its establishment in 2020, Drone Show Japan Inc’s business operations have expanded exponentially. What began with a small inaugural s...

Christopher Nkunku scored a hat-trick as Chelsea thrashed fourth tier Barrow 5-0 to reach the last 16 of the League Cup on Tuesday as a much...

Katie Mimura, left, and Hisako Kaneko, right, who traveled from Japan to show support for Republican presidential nominee former President D...

Donald Trump said on Monday that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy wanted the Democrats to win the 2024 U.S. election, in which the fo...

Japan’s meteorological agency on Tuesday issued a tsunami advisory to a group of remote islands south of Tokyo after a strong earthquake.Th...

California Governor Gavin Newsom signed into law on Monday a bill that requires schools to limit or ban the use of smartphones, amid a growi...

Boeing proposed lifting hourly wages for striking workers by 30 percent on Monday, sweetening its initial offer in an effort to end a 10-day...

A mentally ill man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 was convicted Monday of murder and faces life in prison.Defense a...

A rider shoots an arrow at a yabusame event in Kamakura on Monday. Yabusame is a practice in which archers shoot through targets from atop g...

Asian stocks were mostly higher on Monday, supported by key rate decisions last week from the U.S. Federal Reserve, Japan, China and Britain...

Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda won the leadership election of Japan's main opposition party on Monday, as it gears up for a possible s...

Shohei Ohtani hit a tying home run in the ninth inning and Mookie Betts followed with a game-ending drive as the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied...

The very end of Shota Imanaga's first year in the major leagues looks a lot like the beginning of the season for the Japanese left-hander.T...

The Chicago White Sox matched the Major League Baseball modern-era record for the most losses in one season on Sunday with a 4-2 defeat at S...

U.S. Ambassador Ken Salazar rejected accusations by Mexico's president that the U.S. was partly responsible for a surge in cartel warfare in...

A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran's South Khorasan Province killed at least 51 people and injured 20, Iran's state media said on Sunday...

Over 100 rockets were fired into Israel from Lebanon early Sunday, with some landing near the northern city of Haifa, as Israel and the Hezb...

Daniel Dubois retained his IBF world heavyweight title with a brutal fifth-round knockout of Anthony Joshua in an all-British spectacular at...