HEADLINES
What to know about the Perseid meteor shower in mid-August
The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about meteor...
Suspected AI-altered image based on Mainichi photo of K...
TOKYO -- A fake image apparently created using generative artificial intelligenc...
Chinese automaker Chery buys Nissan plant in Africa as ...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) -- Chinese automakers are increasingly shifting from exporti...
Easy Japanese news in translation: Rice paddy rugby eve...
"Tambo Rugby in Yamato Sakurai," a rugby event played in a rice paddy, was held ...
Intensity of bear complaints strains over 40% of Japan ...
More than 40 percent of local governments responding to a surge in bear encounte...
Police ask Kumamoto residents to not get too drunk duri...
Of course, there’s never a good time to experience a 7.1 magnitude earthquake, b...
Cancellation of 3-city simultaneous fireworks in Japan ...
The abrupt cancellation of what was touted as a simultaneous fireworks festival ...
Typhoon weakens to tropical depression after making lan...
Typhoon No. 15 lost strength and was downgraded to a tropical depression Wednesd...
U.S. forces airlift drinking water to quake-hit Kumamoto
The U.S. Embassy in Tokyo said Monday that U.S. Forces Japan had airlifted drink...
Pearl Harbor attack witness, atomic bomb survivor reuni...
A living witness to Japan's 1941 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and a survivor ...
Japan successfully launches H3 rocket carrying position...
TANEGASHIMA, Japan (Kyodo) -- The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency on Tuesday ...
Japan PM calls for free, safe passage of Hormuz in phon...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi called for the resumptio...
Yosakoi Festival starts in Kochi with 18,000 dancers pa...
KOCHI (Kyodo) -- The Yosakoi Festival started Monday in the western Japanese cit...
Climber traffic falls 30% in Japan's bear-hit Hokkaido,...
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Climber traffic fell more than 30 percent in northern Japan's H...
Japan's Bonbon Drop sticker craze spurring sellouts, fakes
OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Sticker trading that was popular among children decades ago is ...
The Mainichi News Quiz: What bracing activity is drawin...
How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz ...
