A 4-year-old boy died here during the early hours of March 15 after likely falling from the hotel room where he was staying ...

An artisan adds a finishing touch on a "koinobori" carp streamer at the workshop Takagi in the Osaka Prefecture city of Sakai ...

A third grader in this western Japan city who dreams of becoming a robot engineer in the future has successfully passed the ...

Japanese men's gymnastics great Akinori Nakayama, who won a total of six gold medals at the 1968 and 1972 Olympics, has died, ...

The Japanese Association of Anatomists (JAA) and two other organizations have set ethical guidelines for students and doctors ...

Japanese Finance Minister Katsunobu Kato said he told his Group of Seven counterparts that the U.S. decision to impose ...

The names of around 4,200 victims of the indiscriminate air raids on Tokyo by U.S. bombers near the end of World War II will ...

Climbers using the four trails on Mt. Fuji will be charged a fee of 4,000 yen ($27) from this summer after a plan by the Sh ...

Eleven approximately 8-meter-long kagotaimatsu torches made an appearance in the omizutori ceremony to herald the arrival of ...

The support rate for the Cabinet of Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba plunged to 23% in a weekend Mainichi Shimbun ...

Nearly 60% of respondents to a Mainichi Shimbun poll conducted on March 15 and 16 indicated that Japan should take ...

Three people were found without vital signs in a fire that broke out Monday morning in a house in Kochi, western Japan, and ...