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

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

The government on Thursday retained its assessment that the Japanese economy is recovering moderately, expressing a more ...

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

Nissan Motor Co. said Wednesday it has abandoned a plan to produce a small electric vehicle model at its Mississippi assembly ...

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

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

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

The Bank of Japan is expected to raise its policy rate to 0.5 percent from the current 0.25 percent in a two-day meeting ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world's thirst for fossi ...

The Chinese government plans to ensure that share prices will rise by ordering pensions and mutual funds to invest more in ...

A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced a man to death over a knife attack near Shanghai last June that injured a Japanes ...