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

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

Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya and his German counterpart Johann Wadephul agreed Monday to strengthen bilateral ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The operator of the Japanese convenience store chain Ministop said Monday it has suspended the sale of deli items at some ...

As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides ...

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

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

Grape picking has started at the tourist farm "Shorenji-ko Kanko-mura" in the city of Nabari, Mie Prefecture. In summer, the ...