Support for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Cabinet dropped to 50% but is still far higher than the ratio expressing disapproval, ac ...

In Hokkaido, brown bears are increasingly appearing in urban areas with little fear of humans. Since 2023, authorities have ...

A Skymark Airlines passenger jet made an emergency landing at Tokyo's Haneda airport Monday after detecting a tire problem, with one ...

Around 25 people reported feeling ill on Monday after a person allegedly sprayed a substance in a commercial facility in ...

The municipal government of this eastern Japan city has asked a mosque in the city to withdraw its application to use a ...

The international system for controlling nuclear weapons is now on the brink of collapse. The world is slipping into a dangerously unstable situation, ...

A ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) panel on May 22 broadly approved a revised outline of a bill that would create a new criminal offense ...

The Japanese government will compile a supplementary budget for fiscal 2026 totaling more than 3 trillion yen ($19 billion) to brace ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between May 16 and 24. The first story was ...

Aboard the RFA Lyme Bay docked off the coast of Gibraltar, hundreds of British sailors are waiting to be deployed for ...

A male red panda at a zoo in this eastern Japan city who became hugely popular for standing upright on his two hind legs is ...

The Nikkei stock index on Monday ended above the 65,000 line for the first time, fueled by hopes the United States and Iran will soon ...