Japan's parliament on Monday enacted a state budget for the next fiscal year after a rare upper house revision reflecting ...

Some 83% of Japanese companies in a recent Mainichi Shimbun survey say they strongly or moderately agree that diversity, ...

TOKYO -- A social welfare corporation based in the capital's Sumida Ward announced on March 31 the launch of a "baby hatch" ...

TOKYO -- Protesters took to the streets of Shibuya March 30, recognized as Palestine's "Land Day," calling for an end to ...

As Japan marks the 100th anniversary of broadcasting in the country this year, the raison d'etre of this means of ...

Two junior high school students from Japan on March 29 completed a roughly 1,000-kilometer cycling journey around Taiwan over ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between March 22 ...

Search and rescue operations continued in central Myanmar on Monday in the wake of last week's magnitude 7.7 earthquake, ...

A third-party panel investigating a scandal involving well-known former TV host Masahiro Nakai and its handling by Fuji ...

Tokyo stocks plunged on the final day of Japan's 2024 fiscal year on Monday, with the Nikkei index ending down 4 percent, on ...

The annex of the Osaka Prefectural Government office has been vandalized with English letters reportedly condemning Israel ...

Cherry blossoms are in full bloom in the heart of the Japanese capital, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)'s Tokyo ...