The Hiroshima Municipal Government on March 22 returned the remains of a young girl killed by the atomic bomb after she was ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. on Sunday resumed power generation and transmission at a nuclear reactor in central Japan ...

Japan will take "all possible steps" to address the weak yen, the country's top currency diplomat said Monday, after the U.S.

The Mainichi is pleased to release our annual selection of haiku from our Haiku in English section for 2025. Congratulations to the many poets from ar ...

The evolution and rapid spread of artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping economies and societies -- and working life will ...

A senior member of Japan's Self-Defense Forces will assume a leadership position in a U.N. peacekeeping mission in South ...

By Philippe Lazzarini, UNRWA Commissioner-General This month, I will conclude my tenure as the Commissioner-General of UNRWA -- the United Nations Age ...

A young male deer appeared Sunday at a part in the middle of city area in Osaka, western Japan, drawing local people wanting to glimp ...

Shinji Miyazaki, a 62-year-old translator is determined to challenge this assumption. He began to learn nine languages, including German, French and Chinese, ...

The United States and Iran threatened to target critical infrastructure Sunday as the war in the Middle East, now in its ...

A statue of Moominmamma has been erected at Higashi-Hanno Station in the city of Hanno, Saitama Prefecture. The Seibu Chichibu Line and JR Hachiko Lin ...

The Act for Eliminating Discrimination against Persons with Disabilities requires businesses to provide "reasonable accommodation" upon requests by disabled individuals to the extent that the requests ...