OTSU -- The first "democratic school" in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, opened here this month, amid a growing trend in the ...

A roughly six-meter-tall Evangelion Unit 01 was erected in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Sunday as part of a local governmen ...

A Tokyo-based real estate company has chosen an unorthodox funding strategy by listing in New York before going public in its ...

More than 1,100 carp streamers are on display across a local river in this east Japan city during an annual spring festival, ...

TOKYO -- It's been 13 years since Takanobu Nishimoto started an "old guy rental" service to raise the social status of ...

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

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels made a port call at a China-funded naval base in southwestern Cambodia on Saturday ...

Substitute Masaya Okugawa scored the 86th-minute winner as a clinical Kyoto Sanga netted with their only shots on target to ...

Train services on Tokyo's busy Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines resumed Sunday following track-switching work for a new route ...

Pinch-hitter Chusei Mannami crushed a three-run homer in the eighth inning Saturday to spark the Nippon Ham Fighters to a 7-4 ...

The United States held on to its overnight lead and lifted the season-ending World Team Trophy in figure skating on Saturday ...

A giant whale sculpture made of ocean plastic waste is being exhibited in London, but what was meant to raise awareness on ...