The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about a "half-cracked" scenario for a predicted megaquake ...

Note: Kobo Daishi is the posthumous name of Buddhist monk Kukai (774-835).

Japan’s Nippon Television has apologised for manipulating street interview clips to falsely claim that Chinese people eat ...

Major League Baseball season is fully underway. Such an event might be the time when I’d point out that baseball is ...

After US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's visit to mark the 80th anniversary of the World War II battle of Iwo Jima, the ...

A Japanese restaurant has issued an apology after a customer found a rat in a bowl of miso soup. The chain restaurant Sukiya, ...

To safeguard its increasingly threatened seafood resources, Japan has built the third-generation ‘Kaiyo Maru’, a modern fisheries research vessel equipped with the latest technology.

For our March 24 story about Mohammed Mansour’s death, we were told his wife and child also died in the attack. But on March ...

Japan must prevent a Taiwan contingency from happening, a group of pro-Taiwan Japanese lawmakers from multiple political ...

Japan will continue to "strongly request a tariff exemption" for the country from the United States, Japanese Prime Minister ...

Rice prices and inflation are putting pressure on Ishiba’s minority government.

The Catholic Church’s weekly newspaper in Japan ended its 102-year history with the March 30 edition, unable to bear the ...