Starting Dec. 2, Japan's conventional health insurance cards will no longer be usable. However, the Ministry of Health, Labor ...

Baumkuchen originated in Germany but has become a wildly popular sweet in Japan, where a prisoner of war on a small western i ...

Japan's hot spring culture, currently under consideration by a government council for a UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage ...

The Chinese government urged its citizens on Friday to avoid visiting Japan as recent remarks by Prime Minister Sanae ...

High school tuition in Japan will soon become effectively free, including for private high schools, but that does not mean ...

Saturday marked 48 years since the disappearance of Megumi Yokota, a symbolic victim of North Korea's abduction of Japanese ...

CHIBA -- The Matsudo Municipal Government in Chiba Prefecture has developed "Meta-Matsu," a three-dimensional virtual space ...

President Donald Trump announced Friday that he was scrapping U.S. tariffs on beef, coffee, tropical fruits and a broad swath ...

How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for Nov. 15 to test your news knowledge.

An AI librarian is a computer program that helps people find books and information in a library. It can answer question ...

I realized the convenience store cashier might be recognizing me when he stopped asking whether I needed a bag, nodding in ...

With bear attacks in Japan becoming more serious, numerous events across the country have been affected this fall, some being ...