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

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

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

Tokyo stocks rose Monday, with the Nikkei index closing higher for a fourth consecutive day, lifted by hopes for progress in ...

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

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 ...

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

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

The leaders of Japan and Vietnam agreed Monday to establish a vice-ministerial-level foreign affairs and defense dialogue ...

Tokyo stocks rose Monday morning, lifted by buying as concerns about tariffs imposed by the United States receded.

Tokyo stocks opened higher Monday after gains on Wall Street late last week as optimism grew that trade tensions between the ...

A university student has been rescued after falling ill on Mt. Fuji, police said Sunday, the second time in one week that a ...