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

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 ...

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 ...

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

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

Okagi Hayashi, a 115-year-old woman in central Japan recognized as the country's oldest person, died at the weekend from ...

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

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

Vivid tree peonies are at their best at Mobara tree peony garden in the city of Mobara, Chiba Prefecture. The site is ...

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

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