The government plans to raise the bar for granting permanent residency to foreigners by requiring incomes higher than the ...

Japan's Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi on July 27 reiterated that she neither approved nor knew about a cryptocurrency bearing ...

Keigo Higashino, a hugely popular Japanese author known for his numerous mystery novels including "The Devotion of Suspect X, ...

Visitors are flocking to Futamigaura beach in this southwestern Japan city, as the summer season reaches its peak, drawn by ...

The Omotesando approach to Naritasan Shinshoji Temple in Narita, Chiba Prefecture, bustled with customers from early in the ...

One in five mothers quit their jobs after a child stopped attending school or became reluctant to go, roughly 30 times the ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between July 18 ...

A special session of the Diet has come to a close, laying bare a critical situation facing the Japanese legislature. Prime ...

A Japanese court on Monday ordered the central government and Kumamoto Prefecture to pay damages totaling 23 million yen ...

An exhibition is being held at Ichikawa City Zoo here to celebrate the first birthday of the viral Japanese macaque Punch, ...

Tokyo stocks rose Monday after crude oil prices retreated on expectations that tensions in the Middle East would ease, ...

Russian ballistic missiles struck the Ukrainian capital of Kyiv early on Sunday, setting off fires and wounding at least ...