A gondola with a spatial audio system has been introduced on a scenic ropeway in a famous hot spring and resort town ...

Art and commerce are the two wheels of cinema, and both are indispensable. Major international film festivals help keep both ...

U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth assured Pacific allies on Saturday that Washington remained committed to the region, but toned d ...

The number of foreign exchange students in Japan as of May 2025 hit a record high of 408,069, ahead of a government goal to reach the ...

A little more than a month has passed since the new school and work year began in Japan. Some people came to Tokyo from other parts of Japan ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi on Saturday held the first trilateral meeting with his counterparts from New Zealand a ...

Munetaka Murakami was replaced after right hamstring tightness during the Chicago White Sox's 4-3 walk-off win over the Detroit Tig ...

The operating rate of plants in Japan producing ethylene, used widely to make detergents, pharmaceuticals and paints, hit a record lo ...

Sticker swapping, a playground craze among children in the 2000s, has returned as a new boom known as "shiru-katsu." Some parents are now making rounds of multiple stores to check stock as they try to ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. said Friday it will revive its flagship Pajero sport utility vehicle in Japan for the first time in seven yea ...

In April, fans of Donald Keene who had visited the special exhibition "Donald Keene and Takuboku Ishikawa" and related sites in the Iwate Prefecture city of Morioka boarded the Tohoku-Hokkaido ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for May 30 to test your news knowledge. Ready? What figure related to Japanese language learning hit a new high in Japan ...