We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Jan. 11 and 19. The first story was･･･ ...

One Punch Man's Saitama is be the most OP protagonist with raw power, but a Jojo's Bizarre Adventures character has an ...

Three individuals were arrested on Jan. 16 for allegedly defrauding a Tokyo woman in her 70s of over 30 million yen (approx.

Researchers from Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan, have developed a novel 6D pose dataset designed to improve robotic ...

J-Hope ‘s latest solo project, Hope on the Street, has set the stage for an international run of shows on the forthcoming ...

BTS member J-Hope will embark on his first solo tour next month after completing his 18-month compulsory military service in ...

The “Hope on the Stage” tour will kick off Feb. 28 at the KSPO Dome in Seoul. He’ll do three nights there, before heading to ...

Japan is staring down a demographic cliff. The population has shrunk for 15 straight years, with births hitting a record low of 730,000 last year and deaths a record high of 1.58 million.

As 2024 nears its end and we look back on the year in entertainment, it was clearly one when Japan-related works loomed large on the global market. It is a diverse group of works. Some were made ...