Toyota said Thursday that its fiscal first-quarter profit plummeted 28 percent and stuck to its forecast that full-year profit with fall for the first time in seven years as it faces more problems from the weakening U.S....

An American nuclear-powered submarine leaked radiation for more than two years and may have affected three Japanese ports where it stopped more extensively than initially thought, Japanese officials said Thursday, releasing a U.S....

Police investigations of marijuana use have surged this year in Japan, the result in part of the easy availability of seeds on the Internet for home cultivation, authorities said Thursday, raising concerns in a country long considered immune from...

Stuart Holden ended the United States’ three-game scoring drought with a goal in the second half, giving the Americans a 1-0 victory over Japan on Thursday in the Olympic opener for...

Japan accepted more than 200 Indonesian nurses into the country on Thursday, an unprecedented move as Tokyo struggles to quell a labor shortage triggered by sinking fertility...

The United States beat Japan 1-0 in men’s soccer Thursday behind Stuart Holden’s goal in the 47th minute.

Japan painted a darker picture of its economic health Thursday, warning of deteriorating exports, output and corporate profits _ signals that may point toward a contraction of the world’s second largest...

Toyota’s fiscal first-quarter profit plunged 28 percent from the previous year as slipping North American sales, a strong yen and rising material costs dented the earnings of the Japanese...

A key barometer of corporate capital spending fell for the first time in three months in June indicating Japanese businesses are feeling the pinch of a sputtering global...

Midfielders Aya Miyama and Homare Sawa scored second-half goals to rally Japan to a 2-2 draw with New Zealand in their opening match of the women’s soccer...