The Latest Breaking News from Tokyo

The winter rugby season is well under way, with fields and sidelines ringing to the unique language of the game. Learning this vocabulary comes through playing and talking about the game, no matter if the players are in Taranaki, Twickenham, Tonga or Tokyo.

South Korea's tougher stance towards the North under its new conservative president will be welcomed by Tokyo as Japan seeks to boost its military capabilities amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula and more broadly in the region, analysts say.

Russia’s foreign ministry says Tokyo failed to make payments under deal giving Japan fishing rights near Kuril islands.

TOKYO: The Japanese government said Tuesday it will ask foreign tourists to wear face masks and take out insurance to cover medical expenses in the event they contract Covid-19 as Japan restarts accepting visitors in stages later this week.

A century-old connection with Poland has led a Tokyo-based social welfare organization to provide support for the many Ukrainians who have taken refuge in Poland to escape Russia's invasion.

Tokyo's Iwanami Hall has supported Japanese movie culture for more than half a century as a pioneer of the so-called mini-theater, but it has now begun screening its last film.

Toru Takahashi, a veteran Tokyo-based photo editor and photographer for The Associated Press who devoted his long career to meticulously capturing images, has died

NEW DELHI: Indian athletics saw history being created on Saturday when Tokyo Paralympian high-jumper Praveen Kumar clinched a sensational gold at the 20th National Federation Cup Junior U20 championships in Gujarat’s Nadiad to become the first para-athlete from the country to finish on top of the podium in an able-bodied…

NEW DELHI: The pain of losing out on an Olympic medal still fresh in her mind, Indian women's hockey team captain Savita said the Tokyo Games continues to remind them of their unaccomplished mission -- finishing at the podium in the quadrennial showpiece.

Toshiba executives said Friday that privatization remains an option for the Japanese technology company, as they defended their efforts to choose the right bidder to restore what they called “a strong Toshiba.” Tokyo-based Toshiba has been trying to win over shareholders to a restructuring plan. The company has not given…

Flight bound for Tokyo forced to make a U-turn