All 12 dazzling floats have gathered for the historic Spring Takayama Festival in this central Japan city for the first time ...

As the international order based on the rule of law faces a crisis, a statement from Japan's leader expressing a strong ...

The Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, which opened April 13, offers a variety of foods, including dishes featuring Kobe beef. A ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between April 5 ...

Support for Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Cabinet hovered at 24% in a weekend public opinion poll conducted by the Mainichi ...

Some 57% of respondents to a recent Mainichi Shimbun survey did not support the government and ruling party's plan to give ...

The Expo 2025 opened in Osaka on Sunday with more than 10,000 people singing Beethoven's Ninth Symphony to celebrate the ...

Trouble between a passenger and a conductor aboard a bullet train on the Tohoku Shinkansen Line in northeastern Japan ...

Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children. This is perfect material for ...

TAKIZAWA, Iwate -- This north Japan city is crowdfunding using the "hometown tax" donation system to keep an ancient ...

A woman in the Japanese capital cannot help but feel her dignity was trampled upon after she met a man through a dating app, ...

IGA, Mie -- This month, the municipal government here has begun issuing an original municipal "resident's certificate" for ...