The Kochi Prefectural Government has launched a 30-million-yen (approx. $209,000) crowdfunding campaign using the hometown ...

Three years have passed since Satsuki and Minato, who are in their 30s and live in the Chugoku region of western Japan, agr ...

People with lifestyle-related diseases risk hospitalization from heatstroke at a rate two to five times higher than those ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between April 19 ...

Japan is considering allowing more imported cars to qualify for a simplified safety and environmental screening process in a ...

TSU -- A group of photo stores in central Japan's Mie Prefecture will conduct a "photo memorial service" at a temple here on ...

Admission ticket sales for the World Exposition in Osaka topped 10 million in about two weeks after its opening on April 13, ...

Two people died in a collision caused by a driver going the wrong way on an east Japan expressway April 26. Some 20% of the ...

Former Japanese economic security minister Sanae Takaichi called Monday for cooperation between Japan and Taiwan to ...

Japan's Kawasaki Frontale advanced to the semifinals of the Asian Champions League Elite football tournament with a 3- ...

The Tokyo District Court has ordered the Tokyo Metropolitan Government to investigate the identity of the biological parents ...

A cross-party group of China-friendly Japanese lawmakers on Monday asked Beijing to lease some more giant pandas to the neighboring ...