The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the new Japanese passports featuring significantly ...

A series of six surveys conducted by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries to examine the causes of the surge ...

Japanese boxer Kyosuke Takami claimed the WBA light flyweight world championship Wednesday with a 10th-round technical ...

The Philippines' new foreign minister has said she sees no problem if Japan were to amend its pacifist Constitution to ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a tsunami warning Wednesday for the country's Pacific coast after a magnitude 8.8 ...

Japan on Wednesday logged a record high temperature of 41.2 C in Tamba, Hyogo Prefecture, the weather agency said.

Following the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP)'s crushing defeat in the House of Councillors election, calls for Prime Minister ...

Japan's ruling and opposition forces agreed Wednesday to abolish the provisional gasoline tax rate by passing a bill through ...

Over 10,000 people in Japan were taken to hospital due to heat-related illnesses over the course of a week in July, marking ...

A tsunami warning after a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck off Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula on Wednesday prompted ...

A record 40.5 percent of fathers with infants in Japan took paternity leave in 2024, climbing for the 12th straight year and ...

A worker discovered a hand grenade while cutting grass in a thicket behind an apartment building in this southwestern Japan ...