Japan is approaching the 81st anniversary of the end of the Pacific War. How long will politicians continue to leave the damage to victims unaddressed ...

British missionary Walter Weston (1861-1940) helped introduce the Japanese Alps to the West and spur the spread of modern ...

A fake image apparently created using generative artificial intelligence (AI) from a Mainichi Shimbun Digital photograph ...

North Korea fired at least one ballistic missile eastward Wednesday morning that is believed to have fallen outside Japan's exclusive ...

Former Japan Business Federation head Hiroshi Okuda, who also served as president and chairman of Toyota Motor Corp., has died, accor ...

NAGOYA (Kyodo) -- Around 6:30 a.m. on May 14, a detective was walking through Kanayama Station in Nagoya, central Japan, on his way to work. As one of the city's major transportation hubs, it is ...

TOKYO -- Japanese and British high school students recently took part in an international exchange program exploring a range of scientific themes at Rikkyo University in Tokyo's Toshima Ward. The ...

A typhoon made landfall in east Japan's Kanto region, which includes Tokyo, on Tuesday night, the weather agency said, warning of flo ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about meteors that can be observed during summer vacation in Japan.

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Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Wednesday held phone talks with Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian, a Japanese government ...

Chinese automakers are increasingly shifting from exporting vehicles to building them in Africa, betting that rapid urbanizatio ...