Japan on Tuesday released a commemorative 500 yen coin for the World Exposition that opens in Osaka this weekend.

The chief of the aviation weather station on Ishigaki Island, Okinawa Prefecture, was under the influence of alcohol while ...

A 23-year-old man who was born in Japan and raised in the Gaza Strip recently enrolled in a vocational school here to study ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday commended Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani for his remarkable achievements last ...

The number of applications for public assistance in Japan reached 255,897 in 2024, according to preliminary figures. This ...

The number of corporate bankruptcies in Japan surpassed 10,000 for the first time in 11 years in fiscal 2024, with small- to ...

The Nikkei stock index snapped a three-day losing streak on Tuesday with its fourth-largest point gain in history, soaring 6 ...

Renowned Japanese actor Ryoko Hirosue was arrested April 8 for allegedly kicking a nurse and causing injury at a hospital in ...

A pair of critically endangered, nearly 100-year-old Galapagos tortoises at the Philadelphia Zoo have become first-time pare ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about what Japan will do with soil removed around the ...

James Wood hit a two-run homer in the seventh inning that helped the Washington Nationals hold off Shohei Ohtani and the Los ...

Japan will dispatch a Self-Defense Forces airplane carrying medicines and medical equipment to Myanmar, Defense Minister Gen ...