Rie Tajiri, owner of Tajiri Thin Section Lab in Higashiosaka, Osaka Prefecture, carefully grinds down a glass slide-mounted ...

An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.9 struck southwestern Japan on Monday, with no immediate reports of injury or ...

SEOUL (Kyodo) -- North Korea has fired a projectile toward the Sea of Japan, the South Korean military said Tuesday. Last ...

Tokyo stocks opened mixed Tuesday as technology shares tracked overnight falls by their U.S. counterparts, while investors ...

The bid by Japan's Nippon Steel to buy U.S. Steel may have a new lease on life after the Biden Administration extended a ...

A man recently died after falling from a shopping center in the heart of the Japanese capital, in the process injuring a man ...

There is one lone statue in the park that has nothing to do with the battle. It is described as "the ghost of Takeda Shingen, ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Jan. 4 and ...

Police arrested a former chancellor of Tokyo Women's Medical University on Monday over alleged breach of trust in relation to ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Government has decided to subsidize up to 100,000 yen (about $640) for the cost of painless delivery, ...

Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children. This is perfect material for ...