The technical term for the event is “coupling,” but it’s known colloquially as the “Shinkansen kiss.” For Japanese rail fans, ...

OSAKA -- A membership guidebook for an elementary school's PTA in west Japan has sparked criticism for its "intimidating" ...

Japan’s parliament, the Diet, voted this week to make public high school free for all children. Tuition fees had been ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between March 22 ...

The suspect, Barbosa Anderson Robson, is said to have stabbed his wife, Manami Aramaki, then 29, and their then 3-year-old ...

The Expo 2025 opened in Osaka on Sunday with more than 10,000 people singing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony to celebrate the ...

Among those arrested were high school teachers, preparatory school lecturers and teenage students. Read more at ...

SINGAPORE: Police officers from six Asian jurisdictions have arrested 435 people - including 21 men in Singapore - for their ...

Born from the trauma of World War II, this bow-wearing cartoon icon became a powerful tool for diplomacy, reinvention, and ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has sent an educational aid fund and stipends to an association of pro-Pyongyang residents in ...

Japan's National Police Agency says that a nationwide crackdown targeting online child sexual exploitation was conducted in February and March, leading to the arrest of 111 people aged 14 to 68. The ...

Australia’s sweeping ban on the use of social media by children under the age of 16 has attracted intense interest in Japan, where there is growing alarm over the hazards of online engagement.