The Bank of Japan (BOJ) has announced that the nation's underlying inflation rate, which excludes temporary fluctuations, has reached its 2% target. I ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about how the Japanese government determines caps on ...

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denied social media claims that Japan agreed to accept 100,000 workers from Bangladesh ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Nov. 3 marked 80 years since the promulgation of its postwar Constitution, with the path toward a first-ever amendment uncertain despite Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's push ...

Artificial intelligence (AI) has increasingly revealed its threatening side amid a series of cases in which the technology ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between October 24 ...

Nearly eight decades after Japanese novelist Osamu Dazai's death, his troubled characters and portrayals of human insecurity are strik ...

Japan Airlines Co. said Monday its net profit for the April-September period fell 42.2 percent from a year earlier to 39.07 ...

Over 10 MLB clubs will interview Yokohama High School pitching star Shoki Oda, its team manager Hiroaki Murata said Monday.

Japan will act in financial markets if they experience excessive volatility or speculative movements following the U.S.

The memory of his late stablemaster is fueling Asanoyama as the former ozeki eyes a return to the second highest rank while ...