Renowned Japanese singer-songwriter and actor Masaharu Fukuyama has acknowledged making sexual remarks to female employees of ...

ICHIKAWA, Chiba -- Amid record-breaking heat, a special "ice cake" filled with fruit was presented to "Popo," a 7-year-old ...

Sayoko Yamamoto, an 81-year-old resident of Hyogo Prefecture, has never seen her father. He was drafted to war in December ...

Japan is using a large coast guard drone, the SeaGuardian, to monitor the Senkaku Islands in the East China Sea amid repeated ...

Three Myanmar nationals in the Japanese capital have been served with fresh arrest warrants for allegedly killing a ...

Three people were taken to hospital after a fire broke out Monday in a building located in Osaka's Dotombori district, one of ...

At a club in Shanghai, dozens of young people are jumping and waving glow sticks as they dance to the music, leaning in as if ...

All trails around lakes in the Shiretoko World Natural Heritage Site in Japan's northernmost main island of Hokkaido fully ...

Nearly half of municipalities across Japan say evacuation shelters they are preparing do not meet government guidelines on ...

TOKYO -- A department store here is calling for people to submit photos of an elephant named "Taka-chan," who was kept on the ...

Two Japanese were fatally shot in Manila earlier this week and their belongings stolen, the Japanese Embassy in the ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between August 9 ...