By Marawan Gomaa For many foreigners living in Japan, daily life feels manageable thanks to English options on websites, ATMs ...

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on Sunday expressed eagerness for an early amendment to Japan's pacifist Constitution, as the ...

A body believed to be that of a child was found Monday in Kyoto Prefecture following a search for an 11-year-old boy who has been mis ...

TOKYO -- A woman who worked as a cosmetics sales employee in northern Japan about 50 years ago died of mesothelioma. Her death has been recognized as work-related as it is believed she may have ...

Nearly 30% of the 1,820 junior high school students in western Japan's Kinki region reported experiencing some form of ...

About 30,000 people gathered outside Japan's National Diet on the night of March 8. Young people sang and danced as ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between April 4 ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The mayor of a Tokyo village expressed a willingness to allow the government to conduct a survey on the suitability of Minamitori Island, which is located at the easternmost edge of ...

As spring brings new encounters and farewells, it also marks the season of job transfers for company workers in Japan. One ...

Thirty years have passed since Japan and the United States agreed to fully return the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station Futenma ...

Kyoto Prefectural Police discovered shoes that may belong to a missing boy in the mountains of the Kyoto Prefecture city of ...

Remember the iPod? It's making a quiet comeback. Four years after Apple killed off its digital music player, secondhand sales ...