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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about "war trauma," which the Japanese government began ...