More than 7,000 public school teachers in Japan took leave due to mental illness in both fiscal 2023 and fiscal 2024, ...

A group of students at the Chiba University of Commerce has created a disaster preparedness card game whose name roughly ...

A tourism facility where visitors can interact with Akita dogs has reopened in this northern Japan city after being moved and ...

A black shape came charging toward him at tremendous speed. There was no time to escape. Video footage recorded in a mountain ...

A total of 68 information leak cases involving domestic violence (DV) victims and other protected individuals occurred ...

A panel of experts has been launched to consider strengthening the government's intelligence functions -- its gathering and ...

Japanese police arrested a U.S. Marine in the alleged robbery and killing of a woman on Okinawa, officials said Sunday, the ...

An extraordinary parliamentary session that convened Monday may put a spotlight on a rule that could lead Prime Minister Sanae Takaic ...

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

The Nikkei stock index briefly topped the 70,000 line on Monday for the first time since early July, led by heavyweight ...

Yokozuna Hoshoryu, who has withdrawn from three consecutive grand sumo tournaments due to injury, performed a ring-entry ...

Japan remained in 12th place in an annual innovation report by the World Intellectual Property Organization this year, ...