A roughly six-meter-tall Evangelion Unit 01 was erected in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Sunday as part of a local governmen ...

OTSU -- The first "democratic school" in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, opened here this month, amid a growing trend in the ...

Applications for deferred payment of expressway tolls following a major failure of Japan's electronic toll collection (ETC) ...

A Tokyo-based real estate company has chosen an unorthodox funding strategy by listing in New York before going public in its ...

TOKYO -- It's been 13 years since Takanobu Nishimoto started an "old guy rental" service to raise the social status of ...

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

More than 1,100 carp streamers are on display across a local river in this east Japan city during an annual spring festival, ...

Substitute Masaya Okugawa scored the 86th-minute winner as a clinical Kyoto Sanga netted with their only shots on target to ...

Pinch-hitter Chusei Mannami crushed a three-run homer in the eighth inning Saturday to spark the Nippon Ham Fighters to a 7-4 ...

Train services on Tokyo's busy Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines resumed Sunday following track-switching work for a new route ...

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels made a port call at a China-funded naval base in southwestern Cambodia on Saturday ...

A giant whale sculpture made of ocean plastic waste is being exhibited in London, but what was meant to raise awareness on ...