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 — ...

Sharp Corp has sold part of its liquid crystal display panel factory site in western Japan to telecom giant KDDI Corp for 10 billion yen as they jointly seek to build an artificial intelligence data ...

Major Asian stock markets, including Japan’s Nikkei and Korea’s Kospi crashed up to 4 per cent on March 31 amid growing concerns of a major trade war. (Agencies) Several Asian stock markets ...

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.

Japan's Nikkei share average slumped on Friday in a brutal end to a volatile week as investors worried about the economic fallout from the rapidly escalating U.S.-China trade war as well as a strong ...

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 ...

Asian markets faced a sharp decline due to escalating US-China trade tensions. Tokyo's Nikkei 225 index significantly dropped. Investors rushed to saf ...