The astronauts of the Artemis II mission set a new distance record Monday for human travel away from Earth as their spacecra ...

The family of a man wrongfully accused in 2020 of unauthorized exports of sensitive equipment filed a damages suit with a ...

A Japanese national who had been detained by Iran since January was released, government sources said Tuesday.

Tottori Gov. Shinji Hirai made headlines in March when he told a prefectural assembly that, regarding cash handouts for ...

Hoping to warn people about the dangers of improperly disposing lithium-ion batteries, the Chiba Prefecture city of Narashino ...

U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday renewed his criticism of Japan, South Korea, Australia and the NATO alliance for not ...

The number of soft drink vending machines installed in Japan in 2025 fell to 1.95 million, preliminary year-end data showed ...

In October 2025, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University (KazNU) sent its students to Kyoto University in Japan for the first ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan is moving to open government-approved "sky paths" for drones above the power lines that span the ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between March 28 ...

TOKYO -- Shady part-time jobs, which promise "high pay" or "cash on the spot," are widely advertised online through social ...

The Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation announced on April 3 that the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum attracted a record 2,580 ...