We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Jan. 18 ...

Whirlpools occur when fast-moving and slow-moving tides collide. The Naruto Strait is an ideal location for this phenomenon, ...

Police in Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, have issued a rare warning to social media users against posting slanderous ...

Paper lanterns are lit at a park in Kobe, Hyogo Prefecture, western Japan, on Jan. 16, 2025, the eve of the 30th anniversary ...

The police chief of Hyogo Prefecture in western Japan has made a rare comment about a rumor on social media that a former ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude-7.3 earthquake that ...

The western Japan city of Kobe and nearby areas on Friday marked the 30th anniversary of the magnitude 7.3 earthquake that ...

People in Japan commemorated the 30th anniversary of the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, which claimed over 6,400 lives.

Kobe, Japan: Thousands of people marked on Friday the 30th anniversary ... on the 30th anniversary of the "Great Hanshin ...

Kobe, Jan. 20 (Jiji Press)--Motohiko Saito, governor of Hyogo Prefecture ... after resigning from the assembly of the western Japan prefecture on Nov. 18, the day after Saito’s reelection ...

A local planetarium damaged in the 1995 Great Hanshin Earthquake will observe its 30th anniversary on Jan. 17 by stopping its ...