Kenichi Hosoya, left, and his wife Shiho. (Mainichi/Tatsuro Tamaki and Ayumi Iwasaki) TOKYO -- A Tokyo couple arrested on ...

Russia has supplied anti-air missiles to North Korea in exchange for it sending troops, a top South Korean official said Fr ...

Former professional boxer Iwao Hakamada, recently acquitted over a 1966 quadruple murder after becoming the world's ...

A Christmas tree lighting ceremony was held at Universal Studios Japan (USJ) theme park in Osaka on November 19. The tree was ...

The world's top war-crimes court issued arrest warrants Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his former ...

The weekly average of new coronavirus cases at designated hospitals across Japan rose for the first time in three months in ...

Kioxia Holdings Corp. said Friday it will list its shares on the Tokyo Stock Exchange on Dec. 18 in an initial public ...

A Japanese research team has developed a type of plastic that can break down in seawater in a bid to decrease environmental ...

Japan's Mone Chiba topped the women's short program and Shun Sato the men's Friday at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating ...

Kawasaki Frontale salvaged a 1-1 draw at Urawa Reds in the J-League first division on Friday after their match, postponed ro ...

The following is the gist of the economic stimulus package worth 39 trillion yen ($250 billion) approved by the Japanese government o ...

China is arranging to restart its unilateral visa-free arrangement for short-term Japanese visitors, possibly later this month, sev ...