The Japan Fair Trade Commission (JFTC) has applied the commitment procedure under the country's antimonopoly law to Amazon ...

As severe cold weather gripped much of Japan on Nov. 11, a view of Mount Fuji from a helicopter showed its peak blanketed in ...

Three months after the Kumamoto earthquake struck in late July, some survivors are gradually settling into temporary housing, ...

A former employee of a prepared-food company near Tokyo was arrested Nov. 11 for allegedly placing unnecessary orders for ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government announced Nov. 10 that the personal information of 475 people who took part in its Tokyo ...

Japan's top currency diplomat Atsushi Mimura said Thursday the yen's fall in recent days has been "too rapid," in an apparent ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A Japanese medical society has called on doctors to generally avoid using the term "abnormal delivery" when ...

The Supreme Court has ruled that last summer's Senate election, in which the maximum disparity in the value of votes among electoral districts reached ...

Uchidaya Co., a long-established Hakata udon chain from southwestern Japan known for its soft noodles, will make its first ...

For all but the most carefree among us, life is often accompanied by some form of an inferiority complex. The source may be ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for Nov. 12 to test your news knowledge.

D) It was mailed to police from Tokyo's Nakano Ward.