Stents used to widen blood vessels in treating congenital heart disease have remained unavailable in Japan for the past three ...

Ruling and opposition parties have resumed discussions on how to secure the number of members in Japan's Imperial Family as ...

As Japan's population continues to decline, how should we view the administrative role of municipal governments? A different ...

On May 3, a giant carp streamer called a "jumbo koinobori" flew in the sky over the Tone River riverbed in the city of Kazo, Saitama Prefecture. Measuring 100 meters in length, it was lifted by a ...

Police arrested a bus driver Thursday on suspicion of negligent driving after a crash on a Fukushima expressway killed a h ...

A Mainichi Shimbun survey found 37% support constitutional revision in Japan under Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi, while 30% ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering visiting South Korea later this month for talks with President Lee Jae ...

The remains of seven Ainu people were returned Friday to Japan from London's Natural History Museum after more than 100 years ...

The wild boar meat sold in the vending machine comes from boars captured in the mountains in the city of Tsuruoka, Yamagata ...

The International Olympic Committee said Thursday that Tokyo and Shanghai have been picked among the qualifier venues ...

The operator of a nuclear power plant in the central Japanese prefecture of Fukui said it halted its reactor Friday morning a ...

A 49-year-old South Korean national was arrested May 7 on suspicion of theft for allegedly stealing 15 books from a store in ...