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 ...

Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi made a pitch for the possible export of the country's advanced Mogami-class ...

Sticker swapping, a playground craze among children in the 2000s, has returned as a new boom known as "shiru-katsu." Some ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for May 30 to test your news knowledge. Ready ...

Mechanical hands dexterous enough to thread a needle, childlike dancing robots and adult-sized ones to help with deliveries ...

A revised Civil Code allowing joint custody by both parents after divorce took effect in Japan in April. The country sees about 180,000 divor ...

Donald Keene is seen during a visit to Takubokusho Park at Omori Beach in Hakodate, Hokkaido, in this photo provided by the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation. "A Handful of Sand," a poetry collection ...

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 ...

An 85-year-old driver was arrested Saturday on suspicion of fatally hitting a man and a woman at an intersection while driving a min ...

In 2024, voters in the Southern California city of Arcadia elected the first all-Asian city council in the city's history.

Japan intervened in the currency market by spending a record 11.73 trillion yen ($74 billion) over the past month, the Finance Minist ...

I first visited Japan in 2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic began. One evening in Odaiba, I rode the Ferris wheel at Palette Town. (It was taken ...