The Hyogo Prefecture city of Ashiya's election administration commission announced on Nov. 5 that there was an error during ...

Children who are often asked how they are feeling or what their opinions are by adults tend to have a higher quality of ...

Central Japan Railway Co. said Thursday it has temporarily halted construction work on a new high-speed maglev train line ...

A whale shark that had been released off west Japan's Kochi Prefecture last month for purposes including ecological research ...

A 44-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly selling illegal drugs to former Olympus Corp. CEO Stefan Kaufmann, police ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Tohoku University on Friday became the first institution formally designated to receive substantial research ...

For the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it's ever been. And for the first time, the globe ...

A total of 34 passengers on two flights carrying a group of high school students from Guam to Japan fell ill with symptoms of ...

Donald Trump's comeback as U.S. president is likely to lift Tokyo stocks into early next year, with his proposed tax cuts and ...

Forest loss in Brazil's Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level o ...

Major listed Japanese companies are expected to see a fall in their combined net profit for the six months ended September, ...

The cover of the picture book "Watanabe-san." (Mainichi/Risa Koshiba) "Watanabe-san," written and illustrated by Naoko ...