Some 8,800 people celebrated Coming-of-Age Day at a ceremony held a day early on Jan. 11 in this southwest Japan city to ...

A total of 7,087 public school teachers in Japan took leave due to mental health issues in the 2024 academic year, according ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between January 3 ...

Gov. Yuriko Koike said she will encourage the implementation of paid household waste disposal in the Japanese capital's 23 ...

The Japan Shogi Association announced on January 7 that Masayuki Toyoshima, a 35-year-old ninth-dan shogi player, has gotten ...

Young women in brightly colored long-sleeved kimonos and young men in formal suits or traditional hakama and haori gathered ...

Ukrainian star Aonishiki survived a scare to continue his perfect start at the second-highest rank of ozeki as the two ...

Niseko, one of Japan's premier ski resorts in Hokkaido, has been labeled "foreignized" in a wave of online rumors. Posts on ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some questions readers may have about why Mie Prefecture is considering halting foreign staff ...

A Japanese shinkansen bullet train operator has stepped up efforts to recycle retired train cars using a patented method to ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington after his threat to strike the Islamic Re ...

LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- The latest film in the Japanese "Demon Slayer" series lost the best animated motion picture award at ...