Almost a fifth of the food produced globally in 2022 was wasted, even though around a third of humanity is facing hunger, a U ...

Niigata ranks first for annual per capita consumption of sake by prefecture, far ahead of top sake producers Hyogo and Kyoto, ...

Train services in parts of western Japan restarted at around 6 p.m. Sunday after being disrupted earlier in the day due to a ...

Japanese municipalities are increasingly being left to rethink the use of coronavirus-era government subsidies as remote work ...

Fifteen-year-old South Korean amateur Lee Hyo Song conjured up a birdie-eagle finish to become the youngest winner in ...

Juro Kara, who helped shape Japan's postwar avant-garde theater, defiantly yet playfully transforming the essence of Kabuki ...

Playoff-bound Brave Lupus Tokyo wrapped up the Japan Rugby League One regular season with a resounding 59-20 victory over ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Koji Chikamoto hit a two-run home run, and Hiroto Saiki threw five effective innings as the Hanshin Tigers ...

A roughly 10-meter-long whale fossil on permanent display at a Gunma Prefecture museum has turned out to be a new species of ...

During the early 1970s there were multiple reported sightings of a frightening apelike creature that emerged from deep in the ...

By Bill Emmott, independent writer, lecturer and international affairs consultant There are many reasons to hope that Joe ...

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