Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and U.S. President Donald Trump plan to hold talks on April 26 in Washington, sources familiar with bilateral relations said Wednesday.

Stocks finished a wobbly day of trading on Wall Street Wednesday with modest losses that erased most of the market's slight gains from a day earlier.

A female royal bicycle racer has requested arbitration from the Japan Sports Arbitration Agency over what she claims is an unfair process to select athletes for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics compared with the way male racers are chosen, a lawyer representing her said Wednesday.

North Korea announced that it has test-fired a new type of tactical guided weapon.

The Lotte Marines remained their master of the Pacific League's powerhouse club, the SoftBank Hawks, beating them 1-0 on Wednesday in their second straight shutout win.

Japan's Kei Nishikori had no answer for some magical shot making by world No. 49 Pierre Hugues Herbert, who won their second-round match at the Monte Carlo Masters on Tuesday.

Foreign Minister Taro Kono plans to visit Moscow in mid-May for a meeting with Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov to advance talks on a postwar peace treaty that has been stalled over a territorial dispute, a Japanese government source said Wednesday.

Just five months before Japan hosts Rugby World Cup 2019, former Japan Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori said Wednesday he will step down as honorary chairman of the Japan Rugby Football Union.

Japanese tennis phenom and world No. 1 Naomi Osaka has been selected among the world's 100 Most Influential People of 2019 in a list released Wednesday by Time magazine.

A museum in Japan says it is trying to destigmatize feces with what it calls the world's first exhibition of cute and colorful poop.

A bus carrying German tourists crashed on Portugal's Madeira Island on Wednesday, killing 28 people and injuring 28 others, local authorities said.

Some of Samsung's new, almost $2,000 folding phones appear to be breaking after just a couple of days.