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

Sony Group Corp. said Friday its sales hit a record high for the six months to September while net profit rose 36.5 percent, ...

A robot that has spent months inside the ruins of a nuclear reactor at the tsunami-hit Fukushima Daiichi plant delivered a ...

Japan's Yuma Kagiyama took the early lead after the men's short program at the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating's NHK Trophy ...

The existence of institutions and social systems in Japan unfair to women in a wide range of fields has been pointed out. The ...

U.S. presidents usually pay lip service at least to being leaders of the free world, at the helm of a mighty democracy and ...

The U.S. Navy has apparently begun deploying its variant of the Osprey aircraft in a western Japan city, a source close to ...

With her selection as President-elect Donald Trump 's incoming White House chief of staff, veteran Florida political ...

A snow crab fetched a top price of 1.5 million yen (about $9,800) in the season's first auction at a port here on Nov. 7, the ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the smaller opposition Democratic Party for the People on Friday began ...

Kai the whale shark is seen at Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan in Osaka's Minato Ward on Nov. 1, 2023. (Mainichi/Koji Minemoto) ...

A sample ballot for the 2024 review of Supreme Court justices is seen. (Mainichi) AMAGASAKI, Hyogo -- The Hyogo Prefecture ...