A 20-year-old suspect arrested on May 1 in connection with the discovery of a couple's burned corpses in eastern Japan's ...

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday emphasized that inflation has remained stubbornly high in recent months and said it doesn't ...

The Japanese currency rapidly rebounded by nearly 4 yen against the U.S. dollar in New York on Wednesday, briefly jumping ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about why and how the Japanese education ministry will ...

How can we support the lives of elderly evacuees in disaster-affected areas? This is a challenge that Japan faces as a whole ...

AKASHI, Hyogo -- Police here have awarded two men for stopping a junior high school student from jumping on train tracks.

Police investigating the April 29 stabbing death of a Vietnamese man in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, on April 30 arrested a ...

Major Japanese publishers were recently awarded nearly 1.74 billion yen (about $11.09 million) in a suit against pirated ...

Two men were arrested Wednesday in connection with the burned bodies of a man and his wife that were found outside Tokyo in ...

Prime Minister Fumio Kishida left for France on Wednesday, the first leg of a six-day overseas trip that is also set to take ...

The Noto Peninsula, battered by a strong earthquake on New Year's Day, is bracing for another blow as many of the foreign te ...

A Japanese town on Tuesday began work to set up a large black screen to block the view of Mt. Fuji at a popular photo spot in ...