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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Opponents and supporters of migrants faced off in angry confrontations at demonstrations held around Britain over the holiday ...

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

Alexandra Eala became the first woman representing the Philippines to win a Grand Slam match, doing so at the U.S. Open by ...