Early ripening peaches have reached their harvest season in the city of Nobeoka, Miyazaki Prefecture. These juicy, ...

U.S. President Donald Trump recently justified his country's attacks on nuclear facilities in Iran by likening them to the ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for June 27 to test your news knowledge.

For decades, Japan's defense spending remained around 1% of GDP. Just two and a half years ago, at the end of 2022, the ...

The prefectural police here on June 27 arrested two university students for allegedly shoplifting about 330,000 yen (roughly ...

Japan executed a man convicted for the 2017 serial murders of nine people in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, a source close to the ...

The Japanese Olympic Committee elected former speed skater and cyclist Seiko Hashimoto as its new president on Thursday night ...

Japan's top government spokesman Yoshimasa Hayashi on Friday refrained from commenting directly on U.S. President Donald ...

Kenshi Nakanishi, 26, has Down syndrome. He is helping visitors from other countries in English at Expo 2025 in Osaka.

Japan's education ministry plans to restrict living expenses support for doctoral students to Japanese nationals only, a ...

Russia's ambassador to Japan will attend an annual peace ceremony commemorating the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing in the ...

What surprising correlation was identified by Japanese researchers between public libraries and elderly residents' health?