The existence of institutions and social systems in Japan unfair to women in a wide range of fields has been pointed out. The ...

Sony Group Corp. said Friday its net profit for the six months to September grew 36.5 percent from a year earlier to 570.13 ...

Central Japan Railway Co. said Thursday it has temporarily halted construction work on a new high-speed maglev train line ...

Kai the whale shark is seen at Osaka Aquarium Kaiyukan in Osaka's Minato Ward on Nov. 1, 2023. (Mainichi/Koji Minemoto) ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party and the smaller opposition Democratic Party for the People on Friday began ...

A sample ballot for the 2024 review of Supreme Court justices is seen. (Mainichi) AMAGASAKI, Hyogo -- The Hyogo Prefecture ...

A snow crab fetched a top price of 1.5 million yen (about $9,800) in the season's first auction at a port here on Nov. 7, the ...

Tohoku University on Friday became the first institution formally designated to receive substantial research grants from a 10 ...

A 44-year-old man has been arrested for allegedly selling illegal drugs to former Olympus Corp. CEO Stefan Kaufmann, police ...

Forest loss in Brazil's Amazon dropped by 30.6% compared to the previous year, officials said Wednesday, the lowest level o ...

As it became clear Donald Trump was returning to the White House, the Florida man who posed for photos with then-House ...

For the second year in a row, Earth will almost certainly be the hottest it's ever been. And for the first time, the globe ...