University admission exam prep school Nichigaku in the capital's Shinjuku Ward suddenly closed its doors just before Japan's ...

Narita International Airport in Chiba Prefecture and Haneda Airport in Tokyo's Ota Ward rank among 12 hub airports awarded ...

As labor-strapped Japan faces a growing exodus of foreign workers due to low wages and other employment challenges, some com ...

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday ruled out the possibility of forming a grand coalition with opposition parties for ...

As Japan embraces increasingly diversifying family structures, there is a need to bring about a society where an individual's ...

A passenger on a bullet train that had stopped at Okayama Station on the Sanyo Shinkansen Line on Jan. 5 pushed an emergency ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Dec. 28, ...

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in Toki in Gifu Prefecture, central Japan, has become the country's oldest person ...

Tokyo stocks ended lower Monday, the first trading day of 2025, as investors took profits following the Nikkei stock index's ...

Japanese snowboarder Taiga Hasegawa picked up his second World Cup big air win of the season Sunday in Klagenfurt, Austria.

The earlier TV series won three awards at the 1981 Golden Globes -- best drama, best actress and best actor. The latest ...

The Japanese government's official English-language X (formerly Twitter) account introduced The Braille Mainichi weekly ...