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PARIS – Japan’s Naomi Osaka battled back from a set and a break down to defeat Slovakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 0-6 7-6 (7/4) 6-1 on Tuesday to reach the Roland Garros second round. Osaka, bidding ... ( read original story ...)

Naomi Osaka's attempt to win a third straight Grand Slam title almost was over barely after getting started. But after losing the first set, the No. 1 seed rallied to win a second-set tiebreak en ... ( read original story ...)

Hospital officials at a televised news conference confirmed her death ... WATCH: Video shows suspect just before Japan’s largest mass killing carried out in 2016 “It was an extremely harrowing ... ( read original story ...)

"Sapporo Tanoshii has done a great job re-purposing an existing ... Amy Williams' column covers all the news of business along the Randall Road corridor from Batavia to Crystal Lake. Contact her at ... ( read original story ...)

He began stabbing the children and then boarded the bus and stabbed children inside as well, according to the BBC's Japan correspondent Rupert Wingfield-Hayes. News outlet Kyodo said the man was heard ... ( read original story ...)

Occupying more than 20% of Japan’s land, it’s no understatement to say that Hokkaido is a vast area. To go sightseeing in Hokkaido, train, bus, car (rental) or airplane is necessary. The most ... ( read original story ...)

Binh made his international debut at the Asian Winter Games in Sapporo, Japan in 2017, joining Vietnam's first-ever team to compete in the tournament long-dominated by Japan, South Korea and China. It ... ( read original story ...)

(Kyodo News via Associated Press) Sixteen people ... Two knives, along with some victims, were found in a nearby park, according to NHK. Violent crime is rare in Japan but there have periodically been ... ( read original story ...)

Japanese media has reported that Abe is considering a visit to Iran next month. The Kyodo News agency, citing unidentified government sources, said on Friday that Abe’s visit would be likely in ... ( read original story ...)

breaking with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who is hosting the president on four-day state visit full of pageantry Standing beside Trump at a news conference after hours of talks ... ( read original story ...)

Trump is winding up a four-day state visit meant to underscore the U.S.-Japan alliance, but shadowed by friction over Tokyo’s big trade surplus with America. On Monday he told a news conference that ... ( read original story ...)

The Japanese foreign minister is not in charge ... the map (although Köln somehow defiantly remains Cologne). English news organs were quick to throw out the name that the city of Kiev wore ... ( read original story ...)

TOKYO -- Asian stocks mostly rose in muted trading Tuesday in the absence of major market-driving news on trade negotiations during the visit of President Donald Trump to Japan. Japan's benchmark ... ( read original story ...)

World number one Naomi Osaka begins her French Open campaign on Tuesday looking to take another step closer to a third successive Grand Slam title. Former US Open champion Juan Martin del Potro also ... ( read original story ...)

The clues were there but nobody seemed to pick up on them. This week, Tokyo decided to break the news to every single one of her followers, revealing that she is pregnant with a baby boy after hiding ... ( read original story ...)

Other Japanese media and TBS News said the number of victims was as high as 16 ... about 9 miles (14 kilometers) southwest of downtown Tokyo. A suspect is thought to have stabbed themselves and is now ... ( read original story ...)