A 22-year-old man had been arrested and sent to prosecutors by Sept. 28 for alleged illicit touting by following and trying ...

Around 70% of seniors in Japan believe they can work past their 80th birthday, a survey by a Tokyo-based apartment management ...

Seventy-seven percent of respondents to a weekend Mainichi Shimbun poll said that Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected head of ...

The prefectural government here has launched suicide prevention patrols with speaker- and infrared camera-equipped drone ...

Some 60% of Japanese people do not read even one book in a given month, the first time that has been true for a majority of ...

The Freedom Party secured the first far-right national parliamentary election victory in post-World War II Austria on Sunday, ...

Shohei Ohtani went 1 for 4 and fell short in his bid to become the National League's first Triple Crown winner since 1937, ...

Rescuers in Nepal recovered dozens of bodies from buses and other vehicles that were buried in landslides near the capital Ka ...

A pair of giant pandas who have been in Japan for 13 years on loan returned safely to a giant panda reserve in southwestern ...

The Nikkei stock index sank over 4 percent early Monday, hit by selling of exporter and other issues after the yen ...

Host country favorite Kei Nishikori's remarkable run at the Japan Open tennis tournament came to a halt at the hands of ...

The 37th Tokyo International Film Festival will be held from Oct. 28 to Nov. 6 in the Japanese capital's Hibiya, Marunouchi, ...