We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between October 4 ...

Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, ends on Oct. 13 after half a year. As the Expo entered its final stages, the number of ...

When Jigyan Kumar Thapa, a Nepalese national living in Kanagawa Prefecture just south of Tokyo, was traveling home on the ...

A private scholarship program is providing support for high school students without residency status in Japan, ensuring they ...

More than half of the guardians of high school scholarship recipients in Japan have reported in a recent survey that there ...

A day care worker in the Japanese capital's Shinjuku Ward reportedly hit the head of a child who was reluctant to eat, ...

Easy Japanese news is taken from the Mainichi Shogakusei Shimbun, a newspaper for children. This is perfect material for ...

Chinese coast guard ships used powerful water cannons on Sunday and rammed and slightly damaged an anchored Philippine gov ...

WASHINGTON (Kyodo) -- President Donald Trump said Sunday that he thinks the U.S. relationship with China will be "fine" ...

A powerful typhoon was passing through the Izu island chain south of Tokyo on Monday after part of the chain was lashed by a ...

Hamas released seven hostages into the custody of the Red Cross on Monday, the first to be released as part of a ceasefire in ...

East Japan Railway Co. (JR East) has stopped using a number by popular all-male idol group SixTONES as a melody to signal ...