Superconductivity, or power transmission with zero electrical resistance, may bring the Chuo Shinkansen maglev rail project ...

Police here are investigating an operation in which over 150 foreign nationals apparently worked illegally as delivery ...

Enjoy the Mainichi Shimbun's "spot the difference" puzzle. The rules are simple: find the seven differences between the two ...

A local government's decision to promote a bridge as the perfect spot for an Instagramable shot of Mt. Fuji has backfired, ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Some 81 percent of people in Japan feel "more uneasy than hopeful" about U.S. President Donald Trump, who ...

Seventy racing pigeons worth about 1.4 million yen (roughly $9,600) were stolen from a 73-year-old farmer in the city of ...

T-4 training aircraft recently crashed into a large reservoir in Inuyama, Aichi Prefecture, about two minutes af ...

Video-on-demand service Netflix has now announced that it will stream "Grave of the Fireflies" in Japan from July 15. The ...

Nissan Motor Co. is considering closing two plants in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, as part of its restructuring plans, a ...

Japan and South Korea plan to set up dedicated entry lanes for tourists visiting each other's countries at four airports in ...

When Ishiguro, the Nobel laureate and author of "Remains of the Day" and "Never Let Me Go," first undertook fiction writing ...

Machida Zelvia stopped second-place Kashiwa Reysol's 11-game unbeaten run in the J-League first division on Saturday, claimi ...