Major League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani has emerged as the most featured celebrity in textbooks that have passed education ...

Bullet train services in western Japan were halted for about two hours Monday evening after railway workers noticed that a ...

A superintendent at Hyogo Prefectural Police concealed that he had lost a pair of handcuffs for 12 years, and revealed the ...

A university student has been rescued after falling ill on Mt. Fuji, police said Sunday, the second time in one week that a ...

The temperature outside was below freezing in this city northwest of Tokyo as local residents stirred early on a February m ...

The Kochi Prefectural Government has launched a 30-million-yen (approx. $209,000) crowdfunding campaign using the hometown ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between April 19 ...

Global military expenditures in 2024 rose 9.4 percent from the year before to a record $2.72 trillion, an international ...

Rui Hachimura gave a gutsy performance with 23 points, but his Los Angeles Lakers were pushed to the verge of elimin ...

Former WBA super flyweight champion Kazuto Ioka pledged Monday to get revenge on current title holder Fernando Martinez of ...

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in central Japan recognized as the country's oldest person, died at the weekend from ...

Two breweries in central Japan's Shizuoka Prefecture have joined forces to brew and begin selling a duo of hard-hitting beers ...