A Cabinet Office survey targeting people who gave up on running for office, unsuccessful candidates and local assembly ...

TOKYO -- Father's Day this year in Japan is on June 15. But many kindergartens and day care centers are now having "family ...

Amid calls that Self-Defense Force members be honored at Tokyo's Yasukuni Jinja shrine if they die in war, some have ...

Looking at the leafy weeping willow standing on the banks of a serene river in Hiroshima, one would never guess it endured ...

Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on Monday removed every member of a scientific committee that advises the Centers for ...

The Pentagon planned to deploy about 700 Marines to Los Angeles on Monday to help National Guard members respond to ...

Senior U.S. and Chinese officials met in London on Monday, with a top economic adviser to President Donald Trump expecting ...

Japan confirmed for the first time two Chinese aircraft carriers operating simultaneously in the Pacific, as the government ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between May 31 and ...

An explosion occurred Monday near the U.S. military's Kadena Air Base in the southern Japanese prefecture of Okinawa, ...

The Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) on June 8 conducted one of Japan's largest live-fire training exercises in Shizuoka ...