Makoto Watanabe quit a major newspaper after it retracted a scoop. Now he runs an investigative nonprofit that does not shy ...

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A stem cell treatment helped improve the motor function of two out of four patients with a spinal cord injury in the first ...

Suzuki, now in his fourth season with Chicago, played nine seasons with the Central League's Hiroshima Toyo Carp from 2013 to ...

Among Japan's famous martial arts there lies one that has remained almost unheard of in the West. Kyudo, the martial art used ...

Mugen Train’ blends Buddhist impermanence, Shinto philosophy and samurai ethics into a lesson on courage and suffering.

It is a problem most skiers and snowboarders would pay to have. Japan, long revered as a powder Mecca, has faced a chilling reality in recent years: warming winters, diminished snowfall ...

Of that number, Japanese nationals and those who had obtained permanent resident status through marriage and other circumstances accounted for about 47,000, more than double the estimate of 10,000 ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japanese star Shohei Ohtani showed off some prodigious power in his return to the Tokyo Dome on Saturday night. In an exhibition game against the Yomiuri Giants, the three-time MVP ...