We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between August 29 ...

The town of Hayama in eastern Japan's Kanagawa Prefecture has been ranked the most desirable place to continue living in the ...

Japan's Immigration Services Agency has announced plans to revise its guidelines for granting permanent residence, tightening ...

LOS ANGELES (Kyodo) -- Japanese manga artist and illustrator Takashi Okazaki won an Emmy Award on Sunday for his work on a ...

Just 17 months after opening, a municipal library in this west Japan city has become a popular gathering place for residents ...

Osaka Customs on Sept. 4 reported 6,546 import seizures involving goods found to infringe intellectual property rights, ...

A series of posts reaching out to young people amid an increase in child suicides, published Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 on the ...

Mitsubishi Motors Corp. unveiled its new Pajero on September 2. The company stopped producing the Pajero in Japan in 2019, ...

The Saga Municipal Government announced a proposed supplementary budget including a tourism spending promotion project being ...

Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward plans to ban, as a general rule, vacation rentals such as Airbnbs in residential areas and areas near ...

Shohei Ohtani is set to return to game action for the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday against the Cincinnati Reds, said skipper ...

Nguyen Duc, a Vietnamese man born as a conjoined twin apparently due to the aftereffects of the defoliant Agent Orange use ...