Heavy rain flooded roads and fields with muddy water in Fukui Prefecture in central Japan on Aug. 30, leaving farmers ...

Japan's oldest person, Shigeko Kagawa, a 115-year-old resident of Nara Prefecture, western Japan, died late last week, the ...

Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi on Monday urged Nepal to do everything possible to locate five Japanese nationals ...

Calls have arisen from conservative legislators including members of Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) for ...

Three people were killed and three others were injured after a passenger car and a truck collided head-on in this central ...

Japan's industry ministry is seeking to conduct a preliminary survey in Hitachiomiya in Ibaraki Prefecture, near Tokyo, to ...

Japan's Defense Ministry on Monday submitted a record budget request of 8.89 trillion yen ($56 billion) for fiscal 2027, as ...

The Japanese government has already lodged a protest over Russian President Vladimir Putin's visit to Etorofu Island in the ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between August 22 ...

Japan's budget requests for fiscal 2027 are set to hit a new high of about 143 trillion yen ($890 billion), as Prime Minister ...

A large fire broke out Monday afternoon in a shopping district in Ise, central Japan, and is believed to have spread to ...

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent wants to rally the world's largest economies this week at a time when the United States has ...