Applications for deferred payment of expressway tolls following a major failure of Japan's electronic toll collection (ETC) ...

A one-month-old girl without underlying health conditions died after being infected with whooping cough, a highly contagious ...

A complaint by a PTA member at an elementary school in this west Japan city led to the association's dissolution in 2020 and ...

TOKYO -- It's been 13 years since Takanobu Nishimoto started an "old guy rental" service to raise the social status of ...

Enjoy the Mainichi Shimbun's "spot the difference" puzzle. The rules are simple: find the seven differences between the two ...

CHIBA -- The Force was strong with this city just east of Tokyo as "Star Wars Celebration Japan 2025," a major fan conference ...

A subcommittee of an advisory body to Japan's minister of justice on reviewing the retrial system will include a former judge ...

The Japanese government has announced a plan to evacuate residents from Okinawa Prefecture's Sakishima Islands to eight ...

HYUGA, Miyazaki -- Delicate blue-purple nemophila flowers, also known as "baby blue eyes," are at their best at a park in ...

SriLankan Airlines on April 17 apologized to concerned parties for its request to wheelchair users to submit doctor's ...

New U.S. Ambassador to Japan George Glass, arriving in Tokyo on Friday, vowed to work with Japan to counter China's ...