A regime that continues to suppress its people through violence and ignores their harsh living conditions has no legitimacy.

Large-scale demonstrations opposing moves to revise the Constitution are continuing across Japan. On the evening of April 8, ...

An annual cherry blossom viewing event began Thursday at the Japan Mint in Osaka, attracting visitors with its ...

By James Reid In 1945, Kantaro Suzuki, then premier of the Imperial Japanese Empire, was asked his thoughts on the ...

Subaru Corp. began accepting orders for the Trailseeker electric vehicle in Japan on Thursday, its second EV jointly ...

A tenuous ceasefire deal in the Iran war allowing negotiations for a longer-term peace between the United States and Iran ...

A Mainichi Shimbun reporter visited Ishigaki Island, located about 400 kilometers southwest of Okinawa's main island, in late ...

A high court decision to overturn a central government order decertifying a Japanese language school over the physical abuse ...

Lunar love knows no bounds. Now hurtling home from the moon, the Artemis II astronauts took a poignant page from Apollo 8 ...

Shohei Ohtani allowed just one unearned run over six innings, but the Los Angeles Dodgers bullpen could not hold onto the ...

There is an explosion of color beneath the surface in Raja Ampat, a remote archipelago in eastern Indonesia where sharks, ma ...

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