Mainichi Daily News

As Wednesday marks the 65th anniversary of the Great Tokyo Air Raid, which claimed the lives of some 100,000 civilians, the first book about the Korean victims of the bombing has been published.

orphanage windowplastic flowers bloomin the snow--Victor Gendrano (Lakewood, CA, USA)

KAMAKURA, Kangagawa -- A 1,000-year-old giant ginkgo tree in front of the main hall of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu shrine here has been knocked down, apparently by strong winds.

A 25-year-old former civil servant was crowned with this year's Miss Universe Japan on Tuesday.

On March 10, 65 years after the Great Tokyo Air Raid of 1945, an association of families left bereaved by the attack also marked their 10-year anniversary since the group's founding.

Japan secretly agreed to give the United States some $4 million to pay for the restoration of U.S.

Successive Japanese Cabinets up to at least 1989 had full knowledge of the secret 1960 agreement between Japan and the United States allowing nuclear-armed U.S.

Sony announced that a range of 3D models will be added to its Bravia line of LCD TVs on June 10.

The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism on Tuesday reprimanded Skymark Airlines Inc.

"You may fool all the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all the time; but you can't fool all of the people all the time."

WASHINGTON -- The Washington Post panned senior Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) legislator Yukihisa Fujita in an editorial on Monday, after a recent interview in which he described the 9/11 terrorist attacks as "a gigantic hoax."

A private detective hired by a divorce-seeking husband to seduce his wife has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for strangling the woman.

Several CD albums and singles by the band Jaywalk will be removed from stores following Tuesday's arrest for drugs of frontman Koichi Nakamura, the band's record label has announced.

The Mainichi Shimbun sat down with director Woody Allen in New York ahead of the Japan debut of his film "Cassandra's Dream," the chronicle of a humble London family's descent into tragedy.

The Mainichi Shimbun sat down with director Woody Allen in New York ahead of the Japan debut of his film "Cassandra's Dream," the chronicle of a humble London family's descent into tragedy.

winter morninga down comforterand nowhere to go--Megan Elizabeth Monish (NE Hickory, NC, USA)

As a newspaper reporter, I tend to eat out and don't always get enough exercise.

NARA -- One of two detectives who formerly worked at Nara Prefectural Police's anti-organized crime unit owes a woman close to a crime syndicate over 2 million yen, investigative sources said.

The National Research Institute for Cultural Properties in Tokyo did not perform an additional environmental probe at the Niigata City Art Museum despite mold, spiders and other bugs being found in a display hall, instead standing by documents authorizing the display of national treasures that were issued in advance, it has emerged.

MIYAZAKI -- A man suspected of murdering his wife, mother-in-law and baby son has told police questioning him over his motives for the alleged killings that he thought he would come under suspicion if his son were left alive, investigative sources said.