We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between April 19 ...

From Hello Kitty to Pikachu, the country changed what the world considers adorable. But do these characters represent joy — ...

Speaking of non-factors, a mediocre major performance for Brooke Henderson, who entered the week second in most strokes ...

Japanese financial authorities are warning of a sharp increase in phishing attacks targeting online securities accounts, with ...

The sprawling penitentiary where Kilmar Abrego Garcia was last known to be held offers a sharp contrast to the supermax mega-prison to which he was first deported.

The Bank of Japan is widely expected to maintain its policy rate unchanged at 0.5% at a two-day meeting ending Thursday as it ...

Europe’s Stoxx 600 index dropped as traders returned from the Easter break. Novo Nordisk A/S slumped almost 10% after a pill ...

A sharp fall in the value of the Japanese yen over the past year is casting a deep shadow over government efforts to shore up the world’s No. 3 economy as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic ...

Japan Airlines (JAL) has been announced as an official World Athletics supplier for the World Athletics Championships Tokyo ...

The vast majority of Indians are unable to afford a car, and tweaking tax rates won't solve this overarching problem for the auto industry.

The latter is due to a sharp rise in marriages between Muslims and Japanese citizens and Japanese converts over two decades that has seen a seven-fold increase in the number of mosques.

Nearly a hundred days into his second term, the Hearst Television Data Team analyzed movements in inflation and the stock ...