Tokyo stocks opened higher Friday after an overnight rise on Wall Street, but gains were limited as investors were cautious ...

Ichiro Suzuki wants to raise a glass with the voter who chose not to check off his name on the Hall of Fame ballot.

Masahiro Nakai, a popular TV host who was a member of the former pop group SMAP and is embroiled in a sexual misconduct ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about social media operator Meta's plan to eliminate its ...

"Ruraru-san no Hondana," written and illustrated by Hiroshi Ito (Published by Poplar Publishing Co. Ltd., 2005) ...

A bar where local geisha entertain customers opened in this hot spring resort town Jan. 23, offering a chance for international an ...

The average price of new condominiums released last year in central Tokyo topped 100 million yen ($639,000) for the second ...

Japan's core consumer prices in December rose 3.0 percent from a year earlier, increasing at a faster pace for the second consecutive ...

Facial recognition ticket gates will be introduced Friday for some Keisei Electric Railway Co. express trains linking ...

Shiki himself played baseball and was inducted into the Japanese hall of fame in a special berth. This poet of the Meiji era ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to once again withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, ...

Japan's parliament is set to begin a 150-day regular session on Friday, as Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba seeks broader cross-party sup ...