"May I put in my two cents?" A social media post that opens like this, responding to a controversial suggestion Japan should ...

HAMAMATSU, Shizuoka -- A 41-year-old man accused of murdering the manager of a so-called "girls' bar" in this central Japan ...

July 26 marks 80 years since the 1945 Potsdam Declaration, in which the United States, Britain and China called on Japan to ...

Four women have been arrested for allegedly soliciting customers for prostitution in the Kabukicho entertainment district in ...

The internal affairs ministry plans to survey municipalities about uncollected resident tax from foreigners who leave Japan ...

The International Crime Division of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) on July 24 referred a 39-year-old woman to ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about why some people in Japan have called for ...

A postelection survey conducted by Kyodo News showed Friday that 56.4 percent of House of Councillors members do not favor a ...

A man sustained minor injuries after another man sprayed a foreign substance in his face at JR Osaka Station during the ...

A 32-year-old man was fatally stabbed Friday, allegedly by his colleague, at a sushi restaurant in Tokyo's busy Ikebukuro ...

The PR posters for this year's Nagaoka Fireworks Festival in Niigata Prefecture are sparking conversation for not featuring ...

The scenes of otters playing in slidelike water channels once disappeared at Ichikawa City Zoo in Chiba Prefecture, but can ...