A 17-year-old passenger in a car being driven by a 16-year-old student without a license died after suffering severe injuries ...

Starting in the 2025 school year, summer break will be extended by four days at all 38 public elementary and junior high ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Nov. 9 and ...

Over half of Japan's sporting bodies have taken measures against nonconsensual capturing and sharing of sexualized images of ...

A drunk passenger was shut inside the last train of the day on a Nagoya subway line and remained there for about five hours ...

Major insurance companies in Japan are urgently thinking of ways to prevent hail damage. Against a backdrop of abnormal ...

The Shigarakicho district of Koka, Shiga Prefecture, is famous for its production of Shigaraki pottery. Snake ornaments are ...

In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Emergency Service, emergency services personnel work to extinguish a fire following a ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba missed a group photo session at the APEC summit in Peru's capital of Lima, with the ...

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani is arranging to visit South Korea in late December for talks with his counterpart Kim ...

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un renewed his call for a "limitless" expansion of his military ...

President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use U.S.-supplied long-range missiles to strike deeper inside Russia, easing ...