The Japanese government is set to introduce new standards on evaluating the durability of wooden buildings with the aim of significantly extending their legal longevity for easier financing and ...

Makoto Watanabe quit a major newspaper after it retracted a scoop. Now he runs an investigative nonprofit that does not shy away from challenging authority.

Summer Edition 2025 will be held from Mar 21 to 23 at the F1 Pit Building, with over 320 homegrown and international brands ...

Unlike the Japanese carrier fleet, the Kriegsmarine envisioned using the Graf Zeppelin in a support capacity for the wider ...

The creation of the White House’s shipbuilding office could help get Navy shipbuilding on track, but the U.S. won’t catch up ...

The new DLA Compound stands inside Kadena Airbase's Chibana Compound Compound in Okinawa, Japan. (Photo Credit: Charlie Maib) ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between March 1 and 9. The first story was ...

Japan is remembering the 105,000 people killed in a single night, 80 years ago Monday, in the U.S. firebombing of the ...

A massive wildfire in northeastern Japan was declared contained Sunday after raging for 12 days, damaging at least 210 ...

On the morning of September 1, 1923, an earthquake with a magnitude believed to be around 7.9 rattled the Kanto region. The ...

Supercomputers are hyper-powerful traditional computers that use thousands or hundreds of thousands of processors to perform complex high-speed computations. The machines were originally tailored for ...

More than 70 people died reportedly in a battle between Syria's interim government security forces and fighters supporting ...