Facing the threat of losing its official party status in the July 20 House of Councillors election, the Social Democratic ...

A total of 162 pregnant and postpartum women took their own lives from 2022 to 2024 in Japan, accounting for about 2% of the ...

U.S. President Donald Trump said Monday he is giving Russian President Vladimir Putin 10 to 12 days to stop the killing in ...

A 48-year-old man was arrested following an attack in eastern Japan on Monday in which several people were slashed with a ...

The approval ratings of Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Cabinet rose 5 percentage points from last month to 29% in a weekend ...

There were 213 cases of deaths in the Japanese capital's 23 wards that were believed to have been caused by the improper use ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba on Monday faced and defied renewed pressure to resign, as members of his ruling ...

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

Ichiro Suzuki, the first Japanese member of the U.S. Baseball Hall of Fame, shared his inspiration to play in the maj ...

Typhoon Co-may has regained strength off Okinawa since being downgraded to a tropical depression over the weekend, according ...

The "Ama no Daiyaei" event, in which female divers swim in the sea at night carrying torches, took place on July 19 in the ...

Achieving equal numbers of men and women in legislative bodies is known as "parity," a term derived from the French word ...