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

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

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

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

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

In a nationwide opinion survey conducted Aug. 23 and 24 by the Mainichi Shimbun, 43% of respondents said Prime Minister ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Japanese government rules for romanizing Japanese characters are being updated from the conventional Kunrei method to the ...

By Takaaki Hiratsuka, professor of applied linguistics at Ryukoku University Have you ever felt like an imposter in your own ...