Japan's space agency plans to partner with private firms to enable various orbiting satellites to conduct emergency ...

Services offering to scatter ashes at sea without the bereaved being present are gaining popularity in Japan, providing a more affordable alt ...

Italian missionary Giovanni Battista Sidotti (1668-1714) landed on southwestern Japan's island of Yakushima in 1708, when the ...

As global tensions escalate, the value of peace is being felt acutely. It is time to reflect on the role Japan must play in ...

Tomiko Itooka, recognized by Guinness World Records as the world's oldest living person, died on Dec. 29, 2024, in Ashiya, ...

Sapporo residents Mana Sato, 37, and Kiyotaka Nishi, 32, a couple pushing Japan to adopt a selective surname system for ...

Nippon Steel Corp. is set to file a lawsuit in response to U.S. President Joe Biden's decision to block its $14.1 billion ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about how the Japanese Emperor spends the first days of ...

Drinking raises the risk of several types of cancer, including colon, liver, breast and mouth and throat. Alcohol breaks down ...

Japan's former world No. 4 Kei Nishikori reached the final of the Hong Kong Tennis Open after his Chinese opponent, Shang ...

Primates, including humans, instinctively fear snakes due to their scales, not their unsettling, slithering movements, Nagoya ...

In an extraordinary turn, a judge Friday set President-elect Donald Trump's sentencing in his hush money case for Jan. 10 -- ...