We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Sept. 21 ...

Online media connected with the Beijing Daily newspaper have published an interview with a Chinese former staffer of Japan's ...

Hakamada Iwao was in jail for 46 years for a crime committed in 1968. Then, he was pronounced not guilty. The reason?

Japan equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Paper & Pulp, Banking and Steel sectors led shares lower.

Bain Capital on Monday launched a tender offer for Japanese cell phone retailer T-Gaia at 2,670 yen per share, a 26.5 per ...

TOKYO (AP) — Shigeru Ishiba, the head of Japan’s governing party, said on Monday he plans to call a parliamentary election on ...

TOKYO (AP) — The governing party of outgoing Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida holds a key vote Friday that will establish a new national leader.

Shigeru Ishiba, the head of Japan’s governing party, says he plans to call a parliamentary election on Oct. 27 after he is ...

Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida will resign Tuesday, handing over leadership to his successor Shigeru Ishiba, who says ...

The filmmaker recently wrote and directed the hit Netflix thriller series 'Tokyo Swindlers,' which landed on the streamer's top 10 list for non-English shows for five consecutive weeks.

Stocks dropped after Japan’s governing party chose Shigeru Ishiba, a critic of the country’s longstanding ultralow interest ...

Shigeru Ishiba was elected as the new prime minister of Japan on Friday. The country’s governing political party, the Liberal Democratic Party, voted for the former minister of defense to lead the ...