A nonprofit Korean organization here has sent a letter of protest to minor opposition party Sanseito after its leader Sohei ...

Youth suicides climbed to a record high in Japan in 2024, raising the question of how to rescue young people harboring ...

A spiral suspended staircase is seen in the first-floor dining area of Hijiyama Hall in Hiroshima's Minami Ward, April 21, ...

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The Mainichi Shimbun answers some common questions readers may have about the Japanese government's minimum wage council ...

About 10 citizens recently staged a protest along National Route 50 in this eastern Japan city in response to repeated ...

Shoshi Maekawa, 60, has been acquitted in a retrial over the 1986 murder of a junior high school girl in the city of Fukui.

This year's Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival recently came to a close after 15 days of festivities, during which men dressed in traditional ...

Japan's Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba faces an increasingly uphill battle in Sunday's upper house election, and a loss could ...

An outdoor museum of vending machines in northeastern Japan that opened in March is seeking to showcase the country's ...