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 ...

Two Ground Self-Defense Force members in their 20s were confirmed dead Monday after they lost contact during a training ...

Total net profit for major Japanese companies listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange is expected to fall 7.8 percent in the ...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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