A nonprofit Korean organization here has sent a letter of protest to minor opposition party Sanseito after its leader Sohei ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the Japanese government's minimum wage council ...

About 10 citizens recently staged a protest along National Route 50 in this eastern Japan city in response to repeated ...

This year's Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival recently came to a close after 15 days of festivities, during which men dressed in traditional ...

Shoshi Maekawa, 60, has been acquitted in a retrial over the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in the city of Fukui.

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday's upper house election, and a loss could ...

An outdoor museum of vending machines in northeastern Japan that opened in March is seeking to showcase the country's ...

KOBE -- "I believe we need to understand our neighbors who live in the same society as us," said Kim Songil, chairperson of ...

When I finally go back home, there are some things I think I will want to take back and unfortunately, others that I cannot.

Soil collected in decontamination work near the crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear complex was transported to central Tokyo ...

New yokozuna Onosato brushed aside rank-and-file opponent Kinbozan to tie for first place at the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament ...

Japan is on track to achieve its target of boosting defense spending to 2 percent of gross domestic product in the next two ...