SAPPORO--A record 1,804 “higuma” brown bears were captured or hunted in Hokkaido in fiscal 2023, prefectural authorities said. The figure was about 1.9 times that of the previous fiscal year. Figures ...

Amid a growing labor shortage and rising living costs, a record number of nursing care providers have gone out of business in the first half of this year. According to a survey by Tokyo Shoko Research ...

PINEHURST, N.C. -- Before the U.S. Open began, Martin Kaymer didn't think a score of 65 was possible at Pinehurst No. 2. Now he has two of them. The soft-spoken German, who broke American hearts when ...