The Chigasaki Municipal Government in Kanagawa Prefecture, known for letting its employees work in aloha shirts, has moved to ...

A bill to revise the Code of Criminal Procedure and reform Japan's retrial system has been submitted to the Diet. The ruling ...

A 46-year-old woman who lost her younger sister, Haruka, in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake sowed "Haruka's Sunflowers" ...

A cherry tree believed to be of a new cultivated species was found on the premises of Kumamoto Castle here, and the municipal ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for May 21 to test your news knowledge. Ready ...

What did Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi call "embarrassing for Japan" during a May 11 House of Councillors session? A) The ...

At an event held in this eastern Japan city on May 17, four foreign residents from Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Vietnam shared ...

Experts say "heat acclimation" is important to stop heatstroke. Heat acclimation means making the body used to heat. Read the ...

Japan logged a trade surplus of 301.9 billion yen ($1.9 billion) in April, government data showed Thursday, while oil imports ...

The Nikkei stock index surged over 2 percent early on Thursday, as hopes for a settlement in the Middle East grew after U.S.

Artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia's quarterly results surpassed Wall Street's expectations once again, fueled by ...

Capsule vending machine items made from recycled acrylic panels that were used as protective barriers during the COVID-19 pa ...