In June this year, a new type of prison sentence, called "kokinkei" in Japanese, was introduced, and the focus of criminal ...

The stately main reading room of a Kobe University library that survived World War II as well as the 1995 Great Hanshin ...

China has rejected Japan's proposal to hold a trilateral summit with South Korea in January following Japanese Prime Minister ...

An escalating diplomatic row between China and Japan, sparked by Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on Taiwan, is ...

United Nations climate talks in Brazil reached a subdued agreement Saturday that pledged more funding for countries to adapt ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remarks on a Taiwan contingency have irked China, casting a shadow over prospects for new ...

Sometimes this was expressed as out-and-out adulation and other times as a bitter denial of any connection whatsoever, and ...

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

Fatima Bosch Fernandez's Miss Universe victory resounded across Mexico on Friday, framed as the vindication of a disrespected ...

Israel's prime minister met with top security officials to discuss a rising tide of Israeli settler violence in the West Bank ...

The operator of monorail services in Tokyo is pitching its route connecting the city center to Haneda airport as ...

The first Group of 20 summit to be held in Africa opens on Saturday with an ambitious agenda to make progress on solving some ...