Their choice to do so is seen as a violation of compulsory school attendance, since free schools are regarded as places for ...

Students from across Japan convened here March 26 to present a list of over 20,000 signatures imploring Japan to sign and ...

Yuko Kawai, vice president of the Bank of Kochi, will be promoted to the top post, becoming the first woman to lead a ...

Aiming to spread the appeal of Japan's traditional kagura dance performances, the southwestern Japan prefecture of Miyazaki ...

Japan's Defense Ministry has launched the Joint Operations Command, a permanent 240-member organization to centrally command ...

Miyagi Prefectural Police announced on March 26 that its Sendai Higashi Police Station has lost 20 SD cards containing some 1 ...

One of the country's largest statues of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835), posthumously called Kobo Daishi, at Imayama Daishi ...

One of the world's largest Mars meteorites departed the National Institute of Polar Research in Tachikawa, Tokyo, on March 26 ...

Recent elementary school starters aged 7 years old accounted for the highest proportion of pedestrians injured or killed in ...

Longtime Fuji Media Holdings Inc. executive Hisashi Hieda will step down from his role as managing adviser, the company said ...

Power forward Rui Hachimura made his return to the Los Angeles Lakers starting lineup Wednesday in a 120-119 win over ...

China's executive vice premier said Thursday his nation, the world's second-largest economy, resolutely opposes protectionism ...