A total of 3,498 properties around critical security facilities and remote islands in Japan were purchased by foreign ...

In September last year, when the owner of a vacant house in a mountainous region of Yamagata Prefecture, in northeaste ...

Leaders of Japan's ruling bloc gave up hopes Tuesday of securing parliamentary approval this year of a bill to slash the ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan logged a trade surplus of 322.3 billion yen ($2 billion) in November, government data showed Wednesday ...

Question: How many people actually want to attend year-end parties? Answer: In an online survey of 1,035 people in their 20s ...

By Chie Shimada I was born in Japan, spent my early school years in the U.K., and now live in South Korea with my British ...

Under the current Constitution, if the House of Representatives is dissolved and members are unavailable, the House of ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for Dec. 16 to test your news knowledge.

The Yokohama Municipal Government has revealed plans to ban smoking on streets citywide ahead of the International ...

A study by Kagawa University in western Japan found that the best way to stop shoplifting is for store staff to greet ...

Authorities announced Dec. 15 that the two giant pandas at Ueno Zoological Gardens would be returned to China at the start of ...

Japan's parliament on Tuesday enacted an 18.3 trillion yen ($118 billion) supplementary budget for the current fiscal year ...