Major League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani has emerged as the most featured celebrity in textbooks that have passed education ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between April 19 ...

A superintendent at Hyogo Prefectural Police concealed that he had lost a pair of handcuffs for 12 years, and revealed the ...

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in central Japan recognized as the country's oldest person, died at the weekend from ...

The Kochi Prefectural Government has launched a 30-million-yen (approx. $209,000) crowdfunding campaign using the hometown ...

The Tokyo District Court has ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to investigate the identity of the biological parents ...

Global military expenditures in 2024 rose 9.4 percent from the year before to a record $2.72 trillion, an international ...

Rui Hachimura gave a gutsy performance with 23 points, but his Los Angeles Lakers were pushed to the verge of elimin ...

Liverpool were crowned the English Premier League champions after a 5-1 home win over Tottenham Hotspur on Sunday, makin ...

Two people died in a collision caused by a driver going the wrong way on an east Japan expressway April 26. Some 20% of the ...

Vivid tree peonies are at their best at Mobara tree peony garden in the city of Mobara, Chiba Prefecture. The site is ...

Former WBA super flyweight champion Kazuto Ioka pledged Monday to get revenge on current title holder Fernando Martinez of ...