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

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

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

A complaint by a PTA member at an elementary school in this west Japan city led to the association's dissolution in 2020 and ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

A one-month-old girl without underlying health conditions died after being infected with whooping cough, a highly contagious ...

A subcommittee of an advisory body to Japan's minister of justice on reviewing the retrial system will include a former judge ...