Hideki Matsui, a former slugger for the Yomiuri Giants and New York Yankees will take over as manager of the Yomiuri Giants next season.

Typhoon Champi, or Typhoon No. 30, categorized as large and strong, was approaching the Sakishima Islands, consisting of Miyako and Yaeyama Islands, in Okinawa Prefecture, as of 10 a.m. on Friday, ...

The New National Theatre, Tokyo (NNTT) kicked off the 2026-27 season with Rossini’s delightful comic opera “Il Turco in Italia” (A Turk in Italy) on Oct. 2.

Bright red salvias bloom in the Tottori Prefectural Flower Park in Nanbu, Tottori Prefecture, against the backdrop of Mt. Daisen, the highest peak in the Chugoku region.

Global firms and governments rushed on Thursday to patch critical flaws in the PHP programming language that underpins much of the internet, as cloud firms reported a surge of hacking attempts after ...

Seven oil tankers caught fire or were damaged in the Strait of Hormuz overnight after being hit by Iran or striking naval mines, Tehran said Thursday, a markedly high number as tensions rise over ...

Tom Skerritt, the Emmy-winning actor who embodied a solid, wry authority figure, whether as a flight instructor in “Top Gun,” a tough-but-fair sheriff on TV’s “Picket Fences” or the doomed captain of ...

Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas, one of the state’s most powerful Democrats, was charged Thursday with leading what authorities alleged was a wide-ranging criminal enterprise that acquired and ...

The term “national interests” hasn’t been used much in Japan since the end of World War II. The reason is, before and during the war, the interests of many people were suppressed “for the sake of ...

President Donald Trump on Thursday accused LeBron James of disrespecting the United States after the NBA star appeared to continue his warmups while the national anthem was performed before ...

A first-of-its-kind cancer vaccine is significantly reducing the chances that melanoma patients’ tumors come back, according to results of a major study released Thursday by drugmakers Moderna and ...

Almost all of Taiwan shut down on Friday ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Champi, which is forecast to bring strong winds and torrential rain, though the storm is weakening and is not expected to make ...