Nozawaonsen is about 3.5 hours from Tokyo. You travel north by train and ... I make around 1,300 yen ($8) an hour. But with the living standards down here and how the company provides lunches ...

The government plans to expand eligibility to include people taking up jobs in agriculture, medicine and welfare, as well as ...

KAWAGUCHI, Saitama Prefecture--Hate speech has again reared its ugly head, in this case against the Kurdish community living close to Tokyo. It follows an altogether familiar pattern: phone calls ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between March 8 ...

Consumer inflation in Tokyo likely slowed down in February as the government reinstated steps to ease the burden from energy bills as higher living costs haunt persistent inflation presser ...

TOKYO (TR) – A 42-year-old man living in Tochigi Prefecture who is in custody in connection with the fatal stabbing of a ...

Students must meet six requirements, including belonging to households with annual incomes not exceeding 9 million yen ($57,800) and living in prefectures other than Tokyo, Kanagawa, Chiba ...