The vice principal at an elementary school here installed a hidden camera in the facility in 2022 under instructions from the ...

Eighty years after the end of World War II, descendants of once-opposing national leaders gathered in Hiroshima to discuss ...

There's been a call for harsher penalties against distracted driving, such as using a smartphone behind the wheel, following a rise in these ...

NARA -- Populations of the "autumn darter" red dragonfly, symbolic of fall in Japan, have plummeted nationwide, with some areas in Nara Prefecture reporting numbers just one-hundredth to ...

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

More than 3 million of the admission tickets sold for Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai are believed to be unused, and are possibly ...

The latest trade agreement between Japan and the United States is so one-sided that it is triggering concern that Tokyo is ...

President Donald Trump's lowered tariff of 15 percent on automobiles from Japan will take effect Tuesday, the U.S. government sa ...

The TikTok ban, endorsed by President Joe Biden while in office, was supposed to have taken effect in January, but Trump has pushed back the deadline three times since taking office the same month, ...

Toyota Motor Corp. said Monday it has launched the box-shaped e-Palette compact electric bus in Japan that can be used not ...

Wall Street rose to more records on Monday at the start of a week that could show whether the U.S. stock market's big recent rally ha ...

The United States, South Korea and Japan opened an air and naval exercise off a South Korean island Monday in their latest ...