TikTok has reached a $400 million settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice, ending a 2024 lawsuit alleging the company ...

Six Myanmar nationals working at a farm in Hokkaido, northern Japan, have been given shelter by a local labor union after ...

The Asian Games torch relay started in Nagoya on Saturday ahead of the start of competition next month, with around 1,000 ...

Eleven people, mostly high school students, were hurt in a multivehicle crash on a highway in southwestern Japan on Friday, ...

Japan's expanding defense budget is drawing intense attention to small and midsize companies at home. The annual budget, ...

A research team has found that bacterial strains in river sediments contaminated with so-called forever chemicals can remove ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for Aug. 22 to test your news knowledge.

A) Return relief supplies to municipal offices without receipts. B) Throw away damaged historical materials before consulting ...

A Vietnamese volunteer firefighter in this central Japan city is hoping to inspire his compatriots to serve their communities.

An exhibition on people with overseas roots who lived in Japan's leprosy sanatoriums is underway at the National Hansen's ...

Many Filipino women came to Japan in the 1980s and 1990s to work and marry. Now many of them are older. Some want to live ...

Japan's budget requests from ministries and agencies for fiscal 2027 starting April are set to top 130 trillion yen ($819 ...