A group of photo stores in central Japan's Mie Prefecture will conduct a "photo memorial service" at a temple here on June 1, ...

People with lifestyle-related diseases risk hospitalization from heatstroke at a rate two to five times higher than those ...

Japan's Kawasaki Frontale advanced to the semifinals of the Asian Champions League Elite football tournament with a 3- ...

Three years have passed since Satsuki and Minato, who are in their 30s and live in the Chugoku region of western Japan, agr ...

Two people died in a collision caused by a driver going the wrong way on an east Japan expressway April 26. Some 20% of the ...

Major League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani has emerged as the most featured celebrity in textbooks that have passed education ...

Bullet train services in western Japan were halted for about two hours Monday evening after railway workers noticed that a ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between April 19 ...

The Tokyo District Court has ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to investigate the identity of the biological parents ...

A superintendent at Hyogo Prefectural Police concealed that he had lost a pair of handcuffs for 12 years, and revealed the ...

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in central Japan recognized as the country's oldest person, died at the weekend from ...

The Kochi Prefectural Government has launched a 30-million-yen (approx. $209,000) crowdfunding campaign using the hometown ...