Education minister Toshiko Abe has apologized for telling a Japanese Communist Party member during a committee meeting that ...

The Tokyo District Court has ordered a local Chinese restaurant to pay some 70 million yen (about $464,000) in compensation ...

Josh Weigensberg, a partner at the law firm Pryor Cashman, said that one question the Ghibli-style AI art raises is whether ...

Their choice to do so is seen as a violation of compulsory school attendance, since free schools are regarded as places for ...

Students from across Japan convened here March 26 to present a list of over 20,000 signatures imploring Japan to sign and ...

Prices of rice in Tokyo jumped around 90 percent in March from a year earlier, with the government's recent release of ...

Japan's Defense Ministry has launched the Joint Operations Command, a permanent 240-member organization to centrally command ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, formally the Treaty ...

Shohei Ohtani launched his second home run of the season Thursday as the Los Angeles Dodgers held on for a 5-4 win in their ...

The Nikkei stock index tumbled over 2 percent Friday morning, hit by selling of auto shares on concerns over tariffs set to ...

Kirk Gibson came out to throw the first pitch to World Series MVP Freddie Freeman. A hobbled Gibson belted a pinch-hit, ...

Myanmar's junta held a ceremony in Naypyitaw on Thursday to celebrate the 80th anniversary of the country's resistance ...