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Olympics & Paralympics

This file photo shows Japan's Yuto Horigome competing in men's skateboarding at the Olympics Qualifier Series for the Paris Games in Shanghai on May 16, 2024. (Kyodo)

Tsunagaru Mainichi Shimbun: Journalism on Demand

The father of the boy, holding documents obtained through a freedom of information request to the Sagamihara Municipal Government, speaks to the Mainichi Shimbun in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, on March 26, 2026. (Mainichi/Hiroshi Sato)

A-bomb Survivors

Koichi Kawano criticizes U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran during a street protest in Nagasaki on March 7, 2026. (Mainichi/Tomohisa Yazu)

Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai

The Grand Ring is seen under demolition work in Osaka's Konohana Ward on April 13, 2026, with only a portion of it remaining. (Mainichi/Naoki Watanabe)

Retro Japan

The exterior of the Takinogawa Gakuen welfare facility's main building features a design that emphasizes horizontal lines, as seen in the suburban Tokyo city of Kunitachi, May 28, 2024. (Mainichi/Akihiro Ogomori)

Living in Japan - an exchange student's view

Sunlight filters through lush green trees in Matsushima.

Japan Uncovered

An aerial view of Urasoe Yodore and parts of Urasoe Gusuku at Maeda Escarpment. (Photo courtesy of the Urasoe Municipal Government)

Global Perspective

Rescuers put out a fire in a residential neighborhood following a Russian drone attack in Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 9, 2026. (AP Photo/Andrii Marienko)

Bill Emmott

Bill Emmott (Mainichi/Yoshiya Goto)

Edging Toward Japan

Film critic and commentator on Japanese culture Donald Richie in 2008 (Public domain)

Easy Japanese news in translation

(Mainichi/Kenji Ikai)

News in Easy English

A completion ceremony takes place in front of Rurikoji temple's five-storied pagoda after renovations in the city of Yamaguchi on April 23, 2026. (Mainichi/ Saiji Fujita)

The Mainichi News Quiz

Most read stories

The first meeting of relevant Cabinet ministers on foreigner policies was held at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Nov. 4, 2025. The "comprehensive countermeasures" compiled this January included raising residence permit fees. (Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata)

Ukrainians in Japan

Groom Tokiya Hiruma, center left, and bride Savenko Valeriia, center right, are gently led by local children as they slowly parade along a shopping street in Nanao, Ishikawa Prefecture, April 29, 2026. (Mainichi/Kazuki Iwamoto)

Japan Motorcycle Diaries

The author's Harley-Davidson Fat Boy 114 is seen on Ganghwado island, northwest of Seoul, Aug. 2, 2025. Beyond the barbed-wire fences and a river is North Korea. (Mainichi/Tatsuma Kasama)

Life in Japan

This supplied photo shows a scene from the documentary film "Black Box Diaries." (C) Shiori Ito/Black Box Diaries production committee.

Japan Trivia

A large crowd bids farewell to a departing "moat train" at the now-defunct Horikawa Station in Nagoya's Naka Ward, Feb. 14, 1976. (Mainichi)

Nightscapes

Numerous mirrors are seen at the main entrance of Tokyu Plaza Omotesando's Omokado shopping mall in Tokyo's Shibuya Ward on April 18, 2024. (Mainichi/Akihiro Ogomori)

COVID vaccination close-up

Committee member, Dr. Joseph Hibbeln, listens during a meeting of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices at the CDC, Sept. 18, 2025, in Chamblee, Ga. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)

Donald Keene's Japan: 100 yrs since his birth

A staged reading titled "Reading a Romanized Diary" is held on a stage resembling Takuboku's boarding house in Tokyo's Hongo district, in this photo taken in Morioka on April 12, 2026. (Mainichi/Masaki Takahashi)

Learning from Japanese picture books

The cover of the picture book "Timothy to Sarah no Paatii," right, is seen alongside another title in the series. (Mainichi/Risa Koshiba)

Young Carers

The House of Councillors passes the revised law on support for child and youth development during a plenary session on June 5, 2024. (Mainichi/Akihiro Hirata)

Enchanting Edo

Katana works by swordsmith Yoshindo Yoshihara are seen in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 14, 2022. The one in the back shows beautiful "hamon" wave patterns along the edges of the blade. (Mainichi/Emi Naito) =Click/tap photo for more images.

Natsume Soseki's Opium Dreams

Natsume Soseki in his study in Tokyo in 1914.

Hometown heritage focus with Satoshi Takahashi

A "kagura" performance with a lion and "Saizo," a clown, is seen at Kataho Hachiman-jinja in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on April 17, 2022. (Satoshi Takahashi)

Center court with Naomi Osaka's trainer

Denis Shapovalov, third from left, and trainer Yutaka Nakamura, far left, are seen in this provided photo.

Kyoto in motion

A Shinto priest is seen exorcizing evil spirits for people along the street during a shrine deity parade in Kyoto's Shimogyo Ward on July 19, 2021. (Mainichi/Yoko Minami)

2024 Japan House of Representatives election

A sample ballot for the 2024 review of Supreme Court justices is seen. (Mainichi)

LDP leadership race 2024

Plaintiffs in a lawsuit demanding an optional separate surname system for Japan carry a banner reading, "Toward a society where married couples can choose to have different surnames!" as they march toward the Tokyo District Court in the capital's Chiyoda Ward on June 27, 2024. (Mainichi/Ran Kanno)

2022 Japan House of Councillors election

Filmmaker Kazuhiro Soda, left, and his wife Kiyoko Kashiwagi are seen after their marriage notification under separate surnames was rejected by the Chiyoda Ward Office, at the office in Tokyo on June 13, 2022. (Mainichi/Kengo Miura)

2025 Rewind

102-year-old Fuku Amagawa carries a prepared dish, in Fujioka, Gunma Prefecture, June 9, 2025. (Mainichi/Chisa Fukuda)

2024 Rewind

The "Kame no Yu" public bathhouse is seen in this image taken from the website of the Kanagawa Prefecture public bathhouse hygiene industry trade association.

2023 Rewind

Students are seen walking without coats on as it snows in the city of Kagoshima on Jan. 24, 2023. The low temperature on this day was 2 degrees Celsius below zero. (Mainichi/Keisuke Muneoka)

2022 Rewind

A man is seen relaxing in a bed situated inside a bookshelf at Book and Bed Tokyo in the capital's Shinjuku Ward on Nov. 18, 2021. (Mainichi/Kentaro Ikushima)

2021 Rewind

An artist's rendition provided by Kintetsu Railway Co. shows the exterior of the sightseeing limited express Awoniyoshi.

2022 World Cup

Argentina's Lionel Messi holds up the trophy flanked by FIFA President Gianni Infantino and The Emir of Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani after winning the World Cup final soccer match between Argentina and France at the Lusail Stadium in Lusail, Qatar, on Dec.18, 2022. (AP Photo/Manu Fernandez)

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