TOKYO -- A social welfare corporation based in the capital's Sumida Ward announced on March 31 the launch of a "baby hatch" ...

TOKYO -- Protesters took to the streets of Shibuya March 30, recognized as Palestine's "Land Day," calling for an end to ...

Search and rescue operations continued in central Myanmar on Monday in the wake of last week's magnitude 7.7 earthquake, ...

As Japan marks the 100th anniversary of broadcasting in the country this year, the raison d'etre of this means of ...

Two junior high school students from Japan on March 29 completed a roughly 1,000-kilometer cycling journey around Taiwan over ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between March 22 ...

Tokyo stocks plunged on the final day of Japan's 2024 fiscal year on Monday, with the Nikkei index ending down 4 percent, on ...

Some 83% of Japanese companies in a recent Mainichi Shimbun survey say they strongly or moderately agree that diversity, ...

South Korean police announced March 31 that they have suspended investigations into a Japanese woman accused of forcibly ...

The number of food and beverage items expected to face price hikes in April totaled 4,225, the highest since October 2023, ...

Cherry blossoms are in full bloom in the heart of the Japanese capital, the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA)'s Tokyo ...

Japan will bar foreigners from acquiring farmland if their visas are set to expire soon, in a bid to prevent misuse of such ...