A fundamental question is surfacing as a bipartisan national conference on social security nears an interim summary: Is Prime ...

Simon Bolivar was a South American hero. In the 19th century, he fought Spain and led a vast colonial territory including ...

Japan's education ministry proposed on July 8 setting annual class hours for a new junior high school subject, ...

Kylian Mbappe had a goal and an assist after missing a first-half penalty kick, Ousmane Dembele scored the other and France ...

Ruling and opposition parties have formally agreed to hold a House of Representatives plenary session on Friday to deliberate ...

(AP) -- Bonnie Tyler, the gravelly voiced, Grammy-nominated Welsh pop star whose 1983 chart-topping power ballad "Total ...

In November, the Kurashiki Observatory will mark 100 years as Japan's first astronomical observatory open to the public an ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) plans to introduce QR code train tickets next spring. The Mainichi Shimbun answers some questions readers may have ab ...

Private rooms scheduled to be adopted on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines this fall with the introduction of a new ...

Internationally renowned Japanese author Haruki Murakami released on Friday his first novel in around three years, a ...

July 8 marked four years since former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was fatally gunned down during a House of ...

A star festival themed tunnel decorated with colorful weather dolls has been set up at Tanashi Jinja shrine in the western ...