For centuries, residents in central Japan have chronicled a mysterious natural phenomenon in winter. They see its disappearance as a bad omen. By Martin Fackler and Hisako Ueno Reporting from Suwa ...

Nominations for the Bafta TV Awards (and Bafta TV Craft Awards) are dominated by four hit shows this year. Baby Reindeer tops the list with a total of eight nominations, followed by Mr Bates Vs ...

Nicola Coughlan, Jessica Gunning and Richard Gadd are among the first-time nominees, while big names in the running include Gary Oldman, David Tennant, Damian Lewis and Brett Goldstein. By Georg ...

U.S. President Donald Trump is seen at the White House in Washington, March 24, 2025. (Pool via AP) The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the Japan-U.S ...

Kaken Pharmaceutical will hand Alumis $40 million in the near term for the rights to develop a late-stage tyrosine kinase 2 (TYK2) inhibitor as a dermatology treatment in Japan. The drug in ...

MT-Fast was developed jointly with NYK’s subsidiary MTI Co. Motoya Hiroyuki, director and general manager of production at Onomichi, said: “We are very pleased that we have been able to ...

Hungarian-born pianist András Schiff announced last week that he was canceling all of his upcoming U.S. performances for the 2025-26 season “due to the recent and unprecedented political ...

Following the release of Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition, Hiroyuki Sawano has taken to X (Twitter) to share a commemorative photo with Laco, who is the vocalist on the new remix of ‘The key ...

The six-member crew of the International Space Station is tasked with studying a sample from Mars that may be the first proof of extra-terrestrial life, which proves more intelligent than ever ...

The minute-long promo features one of the key soundtracks for Season 2 “To the Top” by Hiroyuki Sawano and clips of Jinwoo’s various fights so far all the way back to the Double Dungeon in ...