In the recent ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) leadership race, all five candidates -- including eventual winner, former ...

Fuku Amagawa, who was born in Japan's Taisho era (1912-1926), works at the ramen restaurant Ginkatei in the city, helped out ...

Professor Kyoko Raita of Chukyo University, an expert on gender issues in sport, notes that the International Olympic ...

Japan should raise its defense capabilities to a level that would prevent an assertive China from using force in the future, ...

Gaza's fragile ceasefire faced its first major test Sunday as Israeli forces launched a wave of deadly strikes, saying Hamas ...

The Nikkei stock index surged over 2 percent Monday, adding more than 1,000 points, as an expected coalition agreement paves ...

China's economy in the July-September period grew a real 4.8 percent from a year earlier, official data showed Monday, with ...

Akira Minagawa's relationship with the Mainichi Fashion Grand Prix spans many years. Nineteen years after winning the top ...

No Japanese Cabinet ministers visited the war-linked Yasukuni shrine in Tokyo during the three-day autumn festival that ended ...

On a train platform in Japan, a drunken middle-aged man began harassing a 41-year-old woman. No matter how many times she ...

The Japan Innovation Party decided Sunday to entrust its chief Hirofumi Yoshimura and co-leader Fumitake Fujita with making ...

In a minutes-long strike Sunday inside the world's most-visited museum, thieves rode a basket lift up the Louvre 's facade, ...