The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the Kyoto Municipal Government's plan to raise its ...

Fuji Television Network Inc. has established a third-party investigation committee in response to a weekly magazine report ...

A student was referred to prosecutors Jan. 23 on suspicion of impersonating a police officer and presenting a forged ID ...

Japan's real wages rose 0.5 percent in November from a year earlier, revised upward from an initially reported 0.3 percent ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has once again made high tariffs a central pillar of his policy agenda in his second term. He ...

At Enoshima Aquarium in the city of Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, soft serve ice cream that looks like a spotted seal is ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said in in an interview aired Thursday that he intends to reengage with North Korean leader Kim ...

The average price of new condominiums released last year in central Tokyo topped 100 million yen ($639,000) for the second ...

The yen rose around 1 yen to the lower 155 level against the U.S. dollar on Friday after the Bank of Japan raised its policy ...

A nearly four-minute audio recording allegedly captured Shohei Ohtani 's former interpreter Ippei Mizuhara impersonating the ...

A Chinese court on Friday held its first hearing on a fatal stabbing last September in Shenzhen, in which a 10-year-old bo ...

"Ruraru-san no Hondana," written and illustrated by Hiroshi Ito (Published by Poplar Publishing Co. Ltd., 2005) ...