A man arrested on suspicion of attempted murder for stabbing a male university student at the Tokyo Metro's Todaimae Station ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) will not submit its own bill on introducing a selective separate surname system ...

It is unacceptable to conveniently reinterpret World War II history and attempt to justify a war of aggression.

South Korean police have referred a Japanese woman accused of forcibly kissing K-pop group BTS member Jin on charges of ...

While too young to compete at next year's Milan-Cortina Winter Olympics, Japanese figure skating prodigy Taiga Nishino has ...

KONAN, Aichi -- A gentle-faced giant Buddha statue with "sunglasses" in this central Japan city, north of Nagoya, has become ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some questions readers may have about the National Diet Library, where ruling and opposition ...

Japan's former Emperor Akihito was discharged from a Tokyo hospital on Saturday after undergoing an examination of his heart ...

A 16-year-old boy was arrested Saturday on suspicion of murder after his grandparents were found dead at their home in ...

Shohei Ohtani crushed a tiebreaking three-run homer in the top of the ninth inning to give the Los Angeles Dodgers a thril ...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- The United States will "basically" continue to enforce a new 10 percent baseline tariff rate for ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Friday that lowering his administration's hefty tariffs on China to 80 percent ...