It has been about two weeks since agriculture minister Kazuo Yana's remarks about cutting funding for municipalities whose ...

The Kyoto District Court will hand down its verdict on Oct. 16 in the case of the December 2013 shooting death of Takayuki ...

Former senior vice farm minister Arata Takebe said Thursday that Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi has offered him the ...

Slumping Shohei Ohtani singled after being dropped to sixth in the order for the Los Angeles Dodgers, whose 6-2 loss to the ...

Embattled Japanese farm minister Kazuo Yana resigned from the Cabinet on Wednesday over controversies surrounding his past ...

Japan has agreed with the United States on a semiconductor production project worth up to roughly $21 billion in the state of ...

OSAKA -- Three in 10 families in Japan with small children are not happy with meals at home, a recent survey says. The ...

Japanese police said Thursday they will set up a panel of experts to discuss measures to protect stalking victims by having ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for Oct. 15 to test your news knowledge.

Which Japanese saying did a Riken research team's fruit fly findings lend support to?

Osaka Prefectural Police arrested four pet shop company officials Oct. 14 on suspicion of having dogs and cats for sale injected with infecti ...

For more than 20 years, Koji Morimoto made his living flying small aircraft. These days, the 60-year-old spends his working ...