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

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 ...

A group of photo stores in central Japan's Mie Prefecture will conduct a "photo memorial service" at a temple here on June 1, ...

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

Major League Baseball star Shohei Ohtani has emerged as the most featured celebrity in textbooks that have passed education ...

Bullet train services in western Japan were halted for about two hours Monday evening after railway workers noticed that a ...

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

A superintendent at Hyogo Prefectural Police concealed that he had lost a pair of handcuffs for 12 years, and revealed the ...

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

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

Global military expenditures in 2024 rose 9.4 percent from the year before to a record $2.72 trillion, an international ...

Rui Hachimura gave a gutsy performance with 23 points, but his Los Angeles Lakers were pushed to the verge of elimin ...