The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about a change in the types of cases for which ...

Discontent is growing in the Tokyo metropolitan area due to proposals to construct giant data centers in residential areas, ...

There seems to be no end to social media-based investment and romance scams in Mie Prefecture. According to prefectural ...

The Japanese archipelago was covered by a Pacific high-pressure system on June 17, resulting in intense heat across a wide ...

Israel has continued to attack Tehran and other parts of Iran daily, killing senior officers of Iran's elite Islamic ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan on Tuesday raised its travel alert for the whole of Iran to the highest Level 4, advising nationals to ...

Nearly 80% of researchers in the field of STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) who have legally changed ...

The mayor of the city of Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture announced on June 16 that he was issued a ticket while driving, and ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) and the Ministry of the Environment have issued a "heatstroke alert" for Chiba, Ibaraki ...

A man in Osaka Prefecture has been arrested for allegedly selling a pirated version of the 1954 black-and-white film ...

A 31-year-old man in the eastern Japan city of Saitama near Tokyo, who had been arrested on suspicion of theft, was served ...

Ippei Mizuhara, a former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani, is in U.S. federal prison, prison ...