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News in Easy English

This file photo taken on Feb. 4, 2023, shows a Japan Airlines Boeing 737-800 plane. (Kyodo)

Learning from Japanese picture books

The cover of the picture book "Donguri Mura no Dongurien." (Mainichi/Risa Koshiba)

Nightscapes

A public phone booth is seen in a corner at Harumi Pier Park in Tokyo's Chuo Ward on Feb. 27, 2024. (Mainichi/Akihiro Ogomori)

2023 Rewind

Kumamoto municipal officials announce that a passage to include foreign residents as citizens of the city has been dropped from draft amendments to the city's basic ordinance, at Kumamoto City Hall on July 25, 2023. (Mainichi/Sonoko Nakamura)

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Japan Trivia

The title of the city's official publication is "Kakamigahara" as seen in hiragana characters here. (Image courtesy of the Kakamigahara Municipal Government)

Tsunagaru Mainichi Shimbun: Journalism on Demand

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Donald Keene's Japan: 100 yrs since his birth

Donald Keene is seen visiting the grave of Japanese painter Watanabe Kazan in Tahara, Aichi Prefecture, in October 2017. (Provided by the Donald Keene Memorial Foundation)

A-bomb Survivors

A-bomb survivor Yoshikazu Nakamura shows his graduation certificate, ripped up by his classmates, during an online meeting with Kenta Nakahara, in Nagasaki on Feb. 23, 2024. (Mainichi/Hiroyuki Takahashi)

Global Perspective

A Palestinian baby girl, Sabreen Jouda, who was delivered prematurely after her mother was killed in an Israeli strike along with her husband and daughter, lies in an incubator in the Emirati hospital in Rafah, southern Gaza Strip. on April 21, 2024. (AP Photo/Mohammad Jahjouh)

Retro Japan

The main building of the former Hino Hospital, with beautiful white walls and green color scheme, is seen in Yufu, Oita Prefecture, on March 9, 2024. (Mainichi/Minoru Kanazawa)

US military helicopters' low-altitude flights

An object that appears to be the fuselage of an Osprey aircraft is seen after it was retrieved by a salvage vessel of the U.S. military off Yakushima Island, Kagoshima Prefecture, on Dec. 27, 2023, in this photo taken from a Mainichi Shimbun helicopter. (Mainichi/Takashi Kamiiriki)

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Life in Japan

The town of Clones in the north of Ireland is pictured in this photo provided by Matthew Macklin.

Japan Motorcycle Diaries

The Honda Cub F motorized bicycle, manufactured in 1952, is seen at the Soichiro Honda Craftsmanship Center in Hamamatsu's Tenryu Ward on Feb. 18, 2024. Unlike the previous Model A, the engine is attached at the rear of the bike to prevent clothing from being soiled by the oil and gasoline in the exhaust. (Mainichi/Tatsuma Kasama)=Click/tap photo for more images.

Ukrainians in Japan

Mariia Dereviyanko, 14, left, helps her younger sister, who entered elementary school this spring, prepare for school. Mariia is a member of the calligraphy club at her junior high school in Japan and has also continued to take classes online at her school in Ukraine. She is interested in biology and other subjects, but cannot yet imagine what she will be doing a year from now. (Mainichi/Daisuke Wada)

Young Carers

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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)

Edging Toward Japan

A historical information board in Chinese and Japanese is seen in Seoul. (Photo courtesy of Damian Flanagan)

Enchanting Edo

Swordsmith Yoshindo Yoshihara is seen heating "tamahagane" steel, as he operates a traditional bellows and sends air blasts to the forge, while charcoal burns, in Tokyo's Katsushika Ward on Feb. 14, 2022. By heating the tamahagane to a maximum of 1,300 degrees Celsius, impurities are burned. (Mainichi/Emi Naito)

COVID vaccination close-up

A coronavirus vaccine shot is administered in this file photo. (Mainichi/Koichiro Tezuka)

Natsume Soseki's Opium Dreams

Natsume Soseki in his study in Tokyo in 1914.

Hometown heritage focus with Satoshi Takahashi

Before a "kagura" performance, Tetsuya Ikeda, second from left, and his sons give a prayer to a lion mask at Kataho Hachiman-jinja shrine in Yurihonjo, Akita Prefecture, on April 17, 2022. He and eldest son Yamato, foreground, will be the lion and second son Taira, left, will be the clown, "Saizo." (Satoshi Takahashi)

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)

Center court with Naomi Osaka's trainer

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

2021 Rewind

Shoji Morimoto who rents himself out to other people "to do nothing," is seen standing near Nakano Station in Tokyo's Nakano Ward. (Mainichi/Mei Nammo)

The Marriage of Princess Mako and Kei Komuro

Mako Komuro, left, and her husband Kei Komuro are seen upon their arrival at John F. Kennedy International Airport on Nov. 14, 2021. (Pool photo)=Click/tap photo for more images.

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)

Full coverage of Japan general election 2021

A voter casts a ballot at a polling station in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward on Oct. 31, 2021. (Mainichi/Toshiki Miyama)

LDP leadership race 2021

In this Sept. 18, 2021, file photo, Sanae Takaichi, left, and Seiko Noda, both former internal affairs ministers and candidates for the presidential election of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, attend a debate session held by the Japan National Press Club in Tokyo. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, Pool)

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