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

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

A third-party panel investigating a scandal involving well-known former TV host Masahiro Nakai and its handling by Fuji ...

Japan's parliament on Monday enacted a state budget for the next fiscal year after a rare upper house revision reflecting ...

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

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

The annex of the Osaka Prefectural Government office has been vandalized with English letters reportedly condemning Israel ...

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 ...

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

Canola blossoms are at their best in rice paddies in the city of Hashimoto, Wakayama Prefecture. The scene looks like a ...

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