While you won't see many of the fabulous illustrations in this online version, you can read the story for free. This classic ...

You don’t read short stories. Well, you probably don’t – statistically speaking. Whenever I speak to friends, too, they’re ...

Reading aloud prepares your baby’s brain for language. It teaches them about words and sentence formation, and introduces them to concepts like stories, colours, letters and numbers. Inspiring a ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Nov. 2 and 10. The first story was viewed by 16% of our regular readers.