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 ...

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

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

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

The Tokyo District Court has ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to investigate the identity of the biological parents ...

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

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

Liverpool were crowned the English Premier League champions after a 5-1 home win over Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, makin ...

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

Vivid tree peonies are at their best at Mobara tree peony garden in the city of Mobara, Chiba Prefecture. The site is ...

Two people died in a collision caused by a driver going the wrong way on an east Japan expressway April 26. Some 20% of the ...