Senior Tokyo police and prosecutors visited a cemetery in Yokohama Aug. 25 and apologized at the grave of a former adviser to ...

Yokozuna Onosato performed in front of a sell-out crowd Monday in Kanazawa, the capital of his native Ishikawa Prefecture, ...

Japan produced several bright moments but were ultimately outclassed 42-14 by Ireland in their opening Pool C contest ...

A former secretary of Japanese politician Koichi Hagiuda, who served as policy chief of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between August 16 ...

Japanese golfer Mao Saigo finished third and compatriot Akie Iwai placed fourth at the CPKC Women's Open won by local f ...

A 3-year-old girl died Aug. 24 in a fall from the sixth floor of an apartment building here after she apparently climbed over ...

Strong winds and heavy rain whipped southern China's Hainan island and nearby parts of Guangdong province on Sunday, as ...

A former local assembly member won Sunday's Yonaguni mayoral election after a campaign dominated by the issue of the ...

North Korea on Monday criticized a weekend summit meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and South Korean ...

Beneath a park in this city east of Tokyo, there remains an imperial air-raid shelter known within the Imperial Household ...

A man arrested for allegedly stabbing a woman to death at her apartment building in western Japan last week has told police ...