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

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

FUKUOKA -- Gangs for many years collected "protection money" from businesses in the suburbs between the major cities of ...

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

YUZA, Yamagata -- Traditional "amahage" demon deities recently visited some 20 homes in this northern Japan town to warn ...

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, ...

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

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

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

N. Korea successfully tested hypersonic missile on Mon.: KCNA (Kyodo) ...

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