Japanese baseball legend Shigeo Nagashima, who rose to stardom for his on-field exploits during the country's era of rapid ...

It was in the late spring of 1955 that Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene first traveled to northeastern Japan's Tohoku ...

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Some retailers are perplexed by continuing rice shortages in Japan despite the release of government stockpiles, while ...

Two Japanese nationals have been killed in Dalian, northeastern China, and a local suspect has been detained, a diplomatic ...

Japan's revenue from a departure tax collected from travelers in fiscal 2024 hit a record high amid an influx in the number ...

A Japanese footballer playing on an Australian A-League team has been arrested for alleged involvement in a betting scandal, ...

A man was found collapsed and later died in Osaka Prefecture on Monday, prompting police to visit his home, where they found ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between May 24 and ...

A zookeeper demonstrated the daring task of brushing a hippo's teeth during a special event at Osaka Tennoji Zoo in this ...

A passenger car crashed through the fence on the side of a bridge and fell onto the shoulder of an expressway in this central ...