About 90% of LGBTQ and other sexual minority students in junior high and high schools in Japan faced harassment or other ...

Japanese telecom giant NTT Docomo Inc. will retire its set of original emoji whose release 26 years ago helped shape the ...

Enjoy the Mainichi Shimbun's "spot the difference" puzzle. The rules are simple: find the seven differences between the two ...

By Damian Flanagan There is a curious historical footnote that tends to be forgotten about the Japanese imperial expansion of ...

The creation of the "Japan-EU Competitiveness Alliance" is expected to be announced at a regular summit meeting being ...

By Bill Emmott, independent writer, lecturer and international affairs consultant ...

The municipal government here announced on June 6 that it had received a donation of 20 kilograms of gold -- worth ...

TOKYO -- An organization in Saitama Prefecture has drawn criticism for holding "junior survival school" events featuring ...

Japan's population decline is accelerating much faster than predicted by the government. The nation cannot afford to ignore ...

Japan's leading shogi organization on Friday picked the first female chief in its 101-year history as part of efforts to ...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- Japan and the United States have "yet to find common ground" on tariff issues, Tokyo's top negotiator ...