TOKYO -- It's been 13 years since Takanobu Nishimoto started an "old guy rental" service to raise the social status of ...

Teruaki Sato homered twice and drove in six runs, leading the Hanshin Tigers to an 8-1 rout of the Hiroshima Carp on Sun ...

Applications for deferred payment of expressway tolls following a major failure of Japan's electronic toll collection (ETC) ...

A roughly six-meter-tall Evangelion Unit 01 was erected in Hamamatsu, central Japan, on Sunday as part of a local governmen ...

Daiki Hashimoto won his fifth straight artistic gymnastics national championships on Sunday after coming out on top in a ba ...

A Tokyo-based real estate company has chosen an unorthodox funding strategy by listing in New York before going public in its ...

Akie Iwai shot an 8-under 64 playing alongside her twin sister Saturday for a share of the third-round lead in the JM Eagle ...

OTSU -- The first "democratic school" in Shiga Prefecture, western Japan, opened here this month, amid a growing trend in the ...

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

A giant whale sculpture made of ocean plastic waste is being exhibited in London, but what was meant to raise awareness on ...

Train services on Tokyo's busy Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku lines resumed Sunday following track-switching work for a new route ...

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force vessels made a port call at a China-funded naval base in southwestern Cambodia on Saturday ...