Fifty-two percent of respondents to a weekend Mainichi Shimbun poll said that they expect Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected ...

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

The number of people killed by flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall over the weekend in Nepal has reached 193 ...

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

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 ...

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

It's often said there is a thin line between love and hate, but is it OK to sometimes hate your long-term partner? If you ask ...

OSAKA -- "I feel sorry for you not having siblings" "So, you're selfish" "You must have been spoiled": These are phrases that ...

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

Japan's industrial output in August fell 3.3 percent from the previous month, partly due to a powerful typhoon that affected ...

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

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