The vice principal at an elementary school here installed a hidden camera in the facility in 2022 under instructions from the ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, descendants of once-opposing national leaders gathered in Hiroshima to discuss ...

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

President Donald Trump's lowered tariff of 15 percent on automobiles from Japan will take effect Tuesday, the U.S. government sa ...

More than 3 million of the admission tickets sold for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai are believed to be unused, and are possibly ...

The latest trade agreement between Japan and the United States is so one-sided that it is triggering concern that Tokyo is ...

TOKYO -- "They deleted all necessary data upon leaving" or "sent a farewell email filled with sarcasm" are some of the ...

Because of the nature of government work, many tasks still require real names, so the only things staff can change are name ...

A group of researchers at Kindai University has succeeded in collecting roe and hatching fry from Siberian sturgeons after ...

Qatar hosted a summit of Arab and Islamic nations Monday in the hopes of presenting a united response to Israel's ...

NARA -- Populations of the "autumn darter" red dragonfly, symbolic of fall in Japan, have plummeted nationwide, with some areas in Nara Prefecture reporting numbers just one-hundredth to ...

There's been a call for harsher penalties against distracted driving, such as using a smartphone behind the wheel, following a rise in these ...