For foreign women who moved to Japan to work as technical intern trainees, taking maternity leave has rarely been a realistic ...

A former U.S. Green Beret who served a prison term for helping former Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn flee Japan said ...

Nara Park in this western Japan city is enjoying a tourist renaissance in the post-COVID and weak yen era. Even more than the ...

Firefighters scrambled Sunday to make further progress against wildfires that have destroyed thousands of homes and killed 16 ...

The rate of infections with the flu-like human metapneumovirus (HMPV) in northern China is declining, a health official said ...

Croatia's opposition-backed President Zoran Milanovic, a critic of the European Union and NATO, overwhelmingly won reelection ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about why the common cold will be classified as ...

When he got the bill from an exterminator he had contacted about a wasp problem, a 72-year-old man living in the suburban ...

U.S. authorities extended a deadline imposed on Japan's Nippon Steel Corp. and United States Steel Corp. to abandon their ...

A new nightlife spot in Tokyo's Shimbashi business district is putting a fresh spin on crane games, blending them with live ...

Japan is working to arrange a trip for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to the United States before mid-February for talks with ...

Japan forward Kyogo Furuhashi bagged a brace as leaders Celtic won 4-1 away to Ross County on Saturday, reaching double ...