Otaru, a northern Japanese city in Hokkaido, has deployed security guards to address repeated instances of unruly behaviour ...

A sinkhole that suddenly opened up on a road just northeast of Tokyo and swallowed a truck has captured national attention as the rescue operation of the driver has dragged on for days ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Jan. 18 ...

Japan Post 2025 has reaffirmed it's still one of the best at designing exquisite, tiny cancels. For any cancel hounds out there, if you are looking for a new ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality perspecti ...

Police in Kanagawa Prefecture on Jan. 23 sent papers to prosecutors on two men on suspicion of violating copyrights by ...

A series of pictogrammes created by the Japan Tourism Agency paints a picture of dos and don'ts to promote better manners among tourists after Japan's popularity with foreign visitors grew at record ...

Last year's record summer heat and heavy rain ruined crops, driving up the cost of the leafy green in what media have dubbed ...

An X account, Crime Reports India, currently blocked in India, shared the image of a man with the caption, ‘Pramod Rathore of ...

When Sonoko Sakai’s mother snuck a little miso into her lasagna, she wasn’t thinking of the kind of Japanese fusion that became an American dining craze in the 1980s. Rather, she was doing ...

Researchers in Japan have developed a recycling technology for the effective use of mixed post-consumer plastic waste, a group ...

Prized Japanese pitcher Roki Sasaki says on Instagram post he intends to sign with Los Angeles Dodgers ...