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

Red Bull on Thursday announced Japan's Yuki Tsunoda will drive for its main Formula One team after dropping New Zealander ...

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

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the Japan-U.S. Security Treaty, formally the Treaty ...

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 ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) on March 27 inaugurated a segment of Takanawa Gateway City, a mixed-use development ...

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 ...