The war in Iran has helped reshape the global electric vehicle market, giving Chinese automakers an opening across the ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi said Monday that opposition questioning on allegations her office commissioned online smear ...

A bill to punish desecration of the Japanese national flag has been submitted to the Diet. The Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between June 13 ...

Japan's Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said Monday he will hold talks with his Canadian counterpart David McGuinty later ...

Japanese Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako continued their official visit to Belgium on Sunday, dining with King Philippe ...

Thirty students from a junior college in this western Japan city, including 20 on an exchange program from Myanmar, visited ...

Researchers from the Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo and the Tokyo Medical Examiner's Office announced ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Monday promised to restore the consumption tax rate to its original 8 percent after a ...

About a year ago, a 46-year-old Japanese man rushed into the Japanese Embassy in Cambodia. "They took my passport. I want to ...

The Nikkei stock index ended above 72,000 for the first time on Monday, renewing a closing record high for the sixth day on ...

Thirty-two percent of respondents to a nationwide Mainichi Shimbun opinion poll conducted on June 20 and 21 opposed a ...