A Cabinet Office survey targeting people who gave up on running for office, unsuccessful candidates and local assembly ...

Looking at the leafy weeping willow standing on the banks of a serene river in Hiroshima, one would never guess it endured ...

Amid calls that Self-Defense Force members be honored at Tokyo's Yasukuni Jinja shrine if they die in war, some have ...

Japan confirmed for the first time two Chinese aircraft carriers operating simultaneously in the Pacific, as the government ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency announced June 9 that the Tokai region in central Japan's Pacific Ocean side, as well as the ...

Senior U.S. and Chinese officials met in London on Monday, with a top economic adviser to President Donald Trump expecting the lates ...

An explosion occurred Monday near the U.S. military's Kadena Air Base in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between May 31 and ...

The Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) on June 8 conducted one of Japan's largest live-fire training exercises in Shizuoka ...

The city of Choshi in Chiba Prefecture is famous for its production of melons. Various varieties, such as the region's ...

TOKYO -- A new study found that almost 90% of workers in Japan still feel worried about work even after they go home. The ...