Yamaguchi Prefecture has teamed up with the parent company of major conveyor belt sushi chain Sushiro and other partners to ...

Sweet potatoes can develop poorly when temperatures reach 30 degrees Celsius or higher, potentially resulting in smaller ...

Returning yokozuna Hoshoryu continued his positive start to the Kyushu Grand Sumo Tournament as he improved to 2-0 with ...

Recently elected Okinawa Gov. Genta Koja said Monday that he supports a controversial plan to relocate a U.S. military air ...

Japan's education ministry has presented draft ministerial guidelines stating that digital textbooks scheduled for ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between October 31 ...

World leaders, delegates and climate activists on Monday will begin negotiations on curbing climate change, which in the last ...

A Chinese man was referred to prosecutors Monday for allegedly disrupting a major mobile carrier's services in Tokyo's Ginza ...

It has been one year since Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi made comments in the Diet about a Taiwan contingency that so angered ...

The fire department serving the Fukuoka Prefecture cities of Munakata and Fukutsu has developed a small, unmanned ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- "Godzilla Minus Zero" stomped into movie theaters with a chart-topping $31.6 million over the weekend, ...

MATSUMOTO, Nagano -- Shinshu University Hospital here is researching and developing "sterile flowers" that inpatients can ...