SoftBank Group Corp Chairman and CEO Masayoshi Son said Wednesday the company is developing "the world's first" artificial intelligence agent system that can autonomously perform complex tasks.

Police in Kawasaki, Kanagawa Prefecture, have arrested a 78-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 68-year-old woman who lived with him at their apartment.

The number of visitors to the World Exposition in Osaka has topped 10 million, reaching the milestone at the halfway point of the six-month event, the Japanese expo association said Sunday. The expo ...

A senior ruling Liberal Democratic Party lawmaker resigned Monday as head of the House of Councillors' powerful Budget Committee over controversial comments he made about a devastating earthquake that ...

Ben Healy became the first Irishman since Stephen Roche in 1987 to take the overall lead on the Tour de France on Monday with a relentless attack across eight grueling hills in the Massif Central. The ...

Tokito Oda of Japan won his second Wimbledon title by beating his biggest rival and defending champion Alfie Hewett of Britain 3-6, 7-5, 6-2 Sunday in the men's wheelchair singles final. Oda and ...

A woman in her 20s was assaulted and robbed while walking home in Kochi City, Kochi Prefecture, on Saturday. According to police, the incident occurred at around 12:15 a.m., NTV reported. Police said ...

Companies in Japan are now required to take steps to protect their employees against heatstroke, with the government imposing new rules in response to the steadily increasing number of deaths in ...

Willy Adames homered in the second inning and hit a two-run triple in San Francisco's five-run fifth and the Giants sent the rival Los Angeles Dodgers to their seventh straight loss with an 8-7 ...

Interim head coach Matt Sherratt said Wales's 31-22 win over Japan on Saturday "has got to be the start of something" after ending their record 18-game losing streak. The Welsh survived another second ...

Hokkaido on Saturday issued a strong warning of brown bears across one of its towns following a fatal attack on a newspaper deliveryman there, making it the first time that the highest-level of alert ...