In June this year, a new type of prison sentence, called "kokinkei" in Japanese, was introduced, and the focus of criminal ...

Ukrainian prodigy Aonishiki kept alive his bid for a maiden championship by continuing his head-to-head dominance over ...

Front runner Onosato withdrew with an injury from the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament's final day of competition Sunday, handing ...

Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi and her British counterpart, Keir Starmer, on Saturday agreed to continue bilateral ...

The population of non-Japanese residents in 10 prefectures has more than doubled over the past decade, data compiled by Kyodo ...

United Nations climate talks in Brazil reached a subdued agreement Saturday that pledged more funding for countries to adapt ...

The stately main reading room of a Kobe University library that survived World War II as well as the 1995 Great Hanshin ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on a Taiwan contingency have irked China, casting a shadow over prospects for new ...

Sometimes this was expressed as out-and-out adulation and other times as a bitter denial of any connection whatsoever, and ...

China has rejected Japan's proposal to hold a trilateral summit with South Korea in January following Japanese Prime Minister ...

An escalating diplomatic row between China and Japan, sparked by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan, is ...

Enjoy the Mainichi Shimbun's "spot the difference" puzzle. The rules are simple: find the seven differences between the two ...