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

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

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

The United States held on to its overnight lead and lifted the season-ending World Team Trophy in figure skating on Saturday ...

A giant whale sculpture made of ocean plastic waste is being exhibited in London, but what was meant to raise awareness on ...

With Sunday marking one week since the opening of the six-month World Exposition on an artificial island in Osaka Bay, ...

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

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

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 ...

近年、春になると「イースター」という言葉とともに、卵をかたどったお菓子を見かける。おしゃれなものが多くて目移りするが、卵のお菓子といえば、赤ちゃんのころから親しんだ卵のボーロは外せない。小さくて丸い焼き菓子で、口の中ですっと溶ける。甘くて優しい味は、 ...

東京都は、東京大空襲などの戦争体験者172人分の証言映像を、2026年春にリニューアルオープンする江戸東京博物館（墨田区）で常時公開する方針だ。証言映像は、平和祈念館の整備を念頭に1990年代に330人分を撮影した。しかし、整備計画が事実上凍結となっ ...