As a third-year university student pursuing activities as an amateur musician, Mayu Tomita was 20 years old on May 21, 2016, ...

A powerful quake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.5 struck northeastern Japan late Monday night, with the weather agency ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for Dec. 9 to test your news knowledge. Ready ...

LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- The latest film in the Japanese "Demon Slayer" series, a global box office smash since its release in ...

A powerful quake with a magnitude of 7.5 struck northeastern Japan late Monday night, injuring 30 people and triggering ...

Students taking university entrance exams in north Japan next year may have trouble finding flights and hotel rooms. This is ...

By Nathaniel Reed For 16 years, I have worked in education in Japan -- from kindergartens to universities, conversation ...

Japan's Empress Masako marked her 62nd birthday on Tuesday by reflecting on the importance of peace after a year that ...

JR East said Tuesday it has suspended some of its Tohoku shinkansen bullet trains from the scheduled start of services due to ...

A forest fire was reported Monday at Mt. Myogi, known as a scenic hiking spot in Gunma Prefecture northwest of Tokyo, with ...

Amid a diplomatic row between Tokyo and Beijing over Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's remark regarding a potential Taiwan ...

An amendment to Japan's Penal Code to introduce the crime of damaging the national flag with the intent to insult the country ...