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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The United States held on to its overnight lead and lifted the season-ending World Team Trophy in figure skating on Saturday ...

With Sunday marking one week since the opening of the six-month World Exposition on an artificial island in Osaka Bay, ...

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