The red lights of a police car are seen in this file photo. (Mainichi) SAITAMA -- Police in Japan's Saitama Prefecture have ...

Donald Trump was elected the 47th president of the United States on Wednesday, an extraordinary comeback for a former ...

MITO -- Local prosecutors summarily indicted a police officer in October for defaming a university professor on social media, ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- An advisory panel to UNESCO has recommended Japan's traditional knowledge and skills for making sake and ...

A series of volcanic eruptions of Mount Lewotobi Laki Laki on Indonesia's remote island of Flores killed nine people and in ...

TOKYO -- A former executive in charge of international broadcasts at NHK who stepped down after a Chinese staffer said the ...

Japan is closely monitoring developments in financial markets, including the yen's movements led by speculators with an ...

The Japan Series champion DeNA BayStars will open their 2025 season with a three-game series against the Chunichi Dragons ...

The Wakayama Prefectural Police headquarters is seen in the city of Wakayama. (Mainichi/Shinji Kurokawa) WAKAYAMA -- The body ...

Japan's nuclear regulator on Wednesday gave the green light for operations to begin at an interim storage facility for spent ...

Donald Trump has won two of the seven battleground states that will most likely decide the outcome of one of the most ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese chip research organization, which has domestic chip venture Rapidus Corp. as one of its members, ...