Voting got underway on Sunday in Japan's House of Councillors election, with all eyes on whether the ruling coalition can ...

A nonprofit Korean organization here has sent a letter of protest to minor opposition party Sanseito after its leader Sohei ...

A new generation of GOP leaders, Johnson in the House and Senate Majority Leader John Thune, have pulled closer to Trump.

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the Japanese government's minimum wage council ...

A high school baseball team that smiled and waved as they marched during the summer 2024 Aomori Prefecture tournament's ...

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About 10 citizens recently staged a protest along National Route 50 in this eastern Japan city in response to repeated ...

The front entrance of Hijiyama Hall in Hiroshima's Minami Ward is seen on April 3, 2025. (Mainichi/Kenjiro Sato) ...

Shoshi Maekawa, 60, has been acquitted in a retrial over the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in the city of Fukui.

An outdoor museum of vending machines in northeastern Japan that opened in March is seeking to showcase the country's ...