At a time when the world is once again shrouded in nuclear fear, it is more important than ever to reaffirm a simple truth: ...

As sweltering heat blankets Japan, parts of Hyogo Prefecture are struggling with water shortages after a city there logged ...

The following is the full text of the Peace Declaration read on Aug. 6 by Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui at a ceremony to mark ...

Yoko Mori, a survivor of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombing of Hiroshima, runs a children's cafeteria in Osaka Prefecture while ...

A Japanese high court on Tuesday upheld the death sentence for a 40-year-old man convicted of robbery-murder in the 2020 ...

Nagata vividly remembers the account of his grandfather surviving the Kure attacks, only to nearly die of hunger and fatigue ...

The following is the full text of a message from U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, delivered on the 80th anniversary ...

Foreign visitors attending the 80th anniversary ceremony of the atomic bombing in Hiroshima said Wednesday's event serves as ...

The population of Japanese nationals in 2024 fell by around 908,000 from a year earlier to 120,653,227, declining for the ...

The wife of South Korea's ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared for questioning by a special prosecutor Wednesday, ...

Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children. This is perfect material for ...

As days with temperatures peaking over 35 degrees Celsius continue to be recorded across Japan, bears and elephants at ...