TOKYO (AP) — Japan has a new sumo grand champion — or yokozuna — and the big news is he's Japanese. Onosato, the new grand champion, weighs 191 kilograms (421 pounds) and he is the first ...

Japan Video & Media announced it will close at the end of the month. The business has sold Japanese and Korean TV, movies, anime and merchandise for over 40 years. Owner Takeshi Onishi has ...

Japan has introduced a new rule that will no longer let parents name their babies whatever they want. The rule was made to stop the use of kirakira (which means shiny or glittery) names. Examples ...

FILE -A radiation monitor indicates 131.00 mSv per hour near Unit 3 and 4 reactor buildings at Tokyo Electric Power Co.,’s tsunami-crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power station in Okuma ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan said on Tuesday it plans to use some of the soil removed from near the contaminated Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant on flower beds outside Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba ...

We all know someone who can't "do horror." Even when we know that movies are all made up works of fiction and that nothing on ...

(Mass Appeal) - There is a limited-time exhibition at the D'Amour Museum of Fine Arts highlighting a Japanese exhibit of Ghosts, Demons and Monsters. Sophie Combs, the Curatorial Assistant at the ...

The latest installment to the long-running franchise is a messy entry that tries to throw too many legacies into a blender. By Brandon Yu In the title role, the singer-songwriter Koki is both ...