Although becoming a household name in her home country has never seemed a realistic ambition for Japanese author Mieko Kanai, ...

The Japan Sumo Association and people in London hosting a sumo tournament next year shared excitement on Wednesday to realize ...

A prosecutor who was sexually assaulted by the Osaka District Public Prosecutors Office chief in September 2018 said in an ...

Sake is perhaps more Japanese than the world-famous sushi. It's brewed in centuries-old mountaintop warehouses, savored in ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Nippon Steel Corp. is "reinforcing its conviction" that its planned $14.1 billion acquisition of United ...

Tokyo stocks opened higher Thursday lifted by technology shares, as sentiment was boosted by Wall Street indexes closing at ...

The Japanese government is making arrangements to ease its visa issuance requirements for Chinese visitors, a government ...

President Yoon Suk Yeol's stunning martial law declaration lasted just hours, but experts say it raised serious questions a ...

An Amazon.com logo is seen in Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward on Dec. 19, 2023. (Mainichi/Tsuyoshi Goto) Abusing a dominant position ...

A small but increasingly influential Japanese opposition party decided Wednesday to suspend its leader, Yuichiro Tamaki, for ...

Japan said Wednesday it will closely monitor the evolving situation in South Korea to determine its implications on bilateral ...

Gov. Yuriko Koike on Dec. 3 announced plans to introduce a system that would give metropolitan government workers the option ...