A 3-year-old boy and his father in this western Japan city passed the top level of the national flag test, an exam that ...

Japan's education ministry proposed on July 8 setting annual class hours for a new junior high school subject, ...

The El Nino phenomenon, in which sea surface temperatures remain unusually high from waters off Peru stretching westward, is ...

The Japanese government has indicated plans to revise its target for raising the minimum wage. It will push back the ...

The pain from that day remains vivid even now. After suddenly being hit with severe stomach pain, Nagisa Nakai endured nearly ...

Akiko Sugaya wheels a cart through the alley-like streets of eastern Tokyo selling tofu, the protein-rich staple favored in ...

The oldest koala in Japan has died at the age of 18, equivalent to about 90 in human years, a tourist facility in the western ...

The operator of Japan's Narita airport and related entities agreed Friday to begin procedures for compulsory land acquisition ...

When China launched a ballistic missile into the South Pacific Ocean on Monday, it was a rare test of a nuclear-capable ...

At Tokyo Disney Resort in the city of Urayasu, Chiba Prefecture, the special summer program "Summer Cool-off" has started.

The gap between people who can use smartphones and other digital devices with ease and those, often older adults, who ...

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about why paid reserved seating on commuter trains is ...