A man has been thanked by police here for preventing an elderly woman from being defrauded despite the would-be victim's ...

Mako Komuro, the eldest daughter of Crown Prince Akishino (Fumihito) and Crown Princess Kiko, has given birth to her first ...

Akie Abe, widow of the late Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow on ...

From floating houses to transport tunnels, 10 elementary school students offered imaginative and unique ideas on disaster ...

The Tokyo High Court recently ordered the Tokyo metropolitan and national governments to pay compensation in a lawsuit ...

U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass, who assumed his position in April, contributed an opinion piece to the Mainichi ...

A group of Zainichi Korean women met in Kawasaki, near Tokyo, on May 21. These women came from Utoro in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture ...

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Japan's chief tariff negotiator, Ryosei Akazawa, will hold another round of talks on Friday with U.S. Treasury Secretary ...

The Japanese government on Friday vowed to explore new overseas markets and provide support for more efficient production as ...

Japan has no intention of purchasing defense equipment from the United States in return for the easing of tariff measures, a ...

President Donald Trump is holding a rally in Pennsylvania on Friday to celebrate a details-to-come deal for Japan-based ...