A growing number of countries are confronting the dual challenges of population decline and aging, as younger generations opt ...

Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui on Friday urged Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba to decide on Japan's participation as an observer ...

Food4Education is helping feed half a million students through a program that drew inspiration from Japan's renowned school ...

China said Friday that its population fell for the third straight year in 2024, falling by almost 1.4 million to 1.408 ...

North Korea condemned on Friday joint military drills between South Korea, Japan and the United States held this week, ...

The United States and Japan are working "together to strengthen and build more resilient supply chains, critical minerals ...

The Japanese government's official English-language X (formerly Twitter) account introduced The Braille Mainichi weekly ...

The US’ support for Taiwan’s meaningful participation in international fora is in line with its “one China” policy, guided by ...

North Korea warned Friday that it would exercise its right to self-defense "more intensively" as it condemned recent joint ...

The United Nations says the world economy resisted battering by conflicts and inflation last year and is expected to grow a ...

The global economy, despite being battered by inflationary pressures and geopolitical conflicts in recent years, is forecast to grow at a subdued rate of 2.8% in 2025, according to the United Nations.

January 8 has seen pivotal events. On this day in 1992, US President George HW Bush vomited at a state dinner in Tokyo with Japan’s then-prime minister, Kiichi Miyazawa. It also marks the birthdays of ...