Shiki himself played baseball and was inducted into the Japanese hall of fame in a special berth. This poet of the Meiji era ...

Masahiro Nakai, a popular TV host who was a member of the former pop group SMAP and is embroiled in a sexual misconduct ...

Facial recognition ticket gates will be introduced Friday for some Keisei Electric Railway Co. express trains linking ...

Nissan Motor Co. said Wednesday it has abandoned a plan to produce a small electric vehicle model at its Mississippi assembly ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has signed an executive order to once again withdraw the United States from the Paris Agreement, ...

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres ratcheted up his warning about climate change and said the world's thirst for fossi ...

The Bank of Japan is expected to raise its policy rate to 0.5 percent from the current 0.25 percent in a two-day meeting ...

A Chinese court on Thursday sentenced a man to death over a knife attack near Shanghai last June that injured a Japanes ...

The Chinese government plans to ensure that share prices will rise by ordering pensions and mutual funds to invest more in ...

Tokyo stocks ended higher Thursday as technology issues rose on hopes for robust investment and a weaker yen lifted exporters ...

South Korean investigators asked prosecutors to indict the country's detained President Yoon Suk Yeol over his short-lived ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about social media operator Meta's plan to eliminate its ...