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

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

Two men suspected of breaking into an elementary school in the Japanese capital and attacking staff are facing new ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Negotiators on nuclear nonproliferation wrapped up a preparatory meeting Friday for next year's conference on a relevant U.N.

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