Germany eyes joining GCAP fighter jet project with U.K, Italy and Japan
There has been mounting speculation the group could open the door to Germany after a rival Franco-German fighter program collapsed in June.
There has been mounting speculation the group could open the door to Germany after a rival Franco-German fighter program collapsed in June.
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi is considering meeting Vietnamese President To Lam in Tokyo early next month to discuss energy
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japanese second-hand goods retailer Bookoff Group Holdings Ltd. and East Japan Railway Co. on Friday became the latest companies to a
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A craft beer producer in central Japan is hoping that its U-shaped "wobbly" glass will encourage people to drink water along with the
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KUSHIRO, Japan (Kyodo) -- JR Hokkaido's popular sightseeing Kushiro Shitsugen Norokko Train made its final run Saturday through a wetland in eastern H
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KITAAKITA, Akita -- A nonprofit group has started spraying a bear repellent by drone in this northeastern Japan city as part of a demonstration experi
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In late June 1878, Isabella Bird and her party traveled upstream along the Ojika River toward what is now Lake Ikari in Tochigi Prefecture. Passing th
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How closely have you been following events in Japan? Try The Mainichi News Quiz for Oct. 10 to test your news knowledge. Ready?What did farm minister
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NIIGATA, Japan (Kyodo) -- Japan's Environment Ministry on Friday confirmed sightings of an endangered crested ibis over 300 kilometers away from Sado
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TOKYO (AP) -- Japan on Friday slammed Russia's request that the Netherlands extradite the president of the International Criminal Court, a Japanese na
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KUMAMOTO, Japan (Kyodo) -- JJR Kyushu's train lines were fully restored Saturday, 74 days after the devastating July 28 earthquake in Kumamoto Prefect
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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan has asked Russia to provide information following the death of a worker at an anti-plague institute in Irkutsk from pneumonia l
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MATSUYAMA -- A 1993 scientific paper by researchers at Ehime University in western Japan on the global spread of persistent organic pollutants (POPs)
