The approval rating for Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's Cabinet climbed 4 percentage points from a previous survey ...

A 64-year-old man at a flower center here has achieved a string of world firsts in the difficult cultivation of carnivorous ...

Japan on Monday rebuked Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov after he voiced opposition over the weekend to Japan's drive ...

Onosato, who has been plagued by a left shoulder injury sustained in last November's tourney, captured his sixth title with a ...

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

Tokyo stocks ended lower Monday as buying in recently strong-performing artificial intelligence- and semiconductor-related ...

The annual Uneme Festival was held around Sarusawa Pond in this ancient Japanese capital on the night of Sept. 25, under a ...

About 20,000 adult golden fire ants, along with some 20 queens and an unspecified number of larvae, were found at a container ...

Former Yokohama Mayor Takeharu Yamanaka, who stepped down earlier this month after admitting he bullied and verbally ...

As part of the traffic safety campaign from September 21 to 30, the Metropolitan Police Department's Tama Chuo Police Station ...

Shohei Ohtani singled in the last game of the Los Angeles Dodgers' regular season on Sunday, but concerns have been raised ab ...

The Pacific coastal Kugenuma district of Fujisawa, Kanagawa Prefecture, has topped the ranking for the first time in an ...