Hawaiian-born former ozeki Konishiki, the first wrestler from abroad to reach sumo's second-highest rank, revealed Monday ...

A Japanese court sentenced on Monday a former local assembly member to 19 years in prison for suffocating his wife to death ...

Safe deposit boxes, expected to be secure, have become the center of a shocking scandal in Japan: a bank employee had been ...

More than 2,500 people gathered here on Dec. 22 to protest against a spate of sexual assaults by U.S. servicemen stationed in ...

Two-time Olympic softball champion Japan plans to develop pitchers and catchers for an expected battle against the United ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Dec. 14 ...

A clear gap between major izakaya chains and small businesses is emerging as Japanese-style pubs are seeing more bankruptcies ...

A Japanese research team has announced the discovery of a substance in Holy Basil that inhibits the proliferation of the ...

MATSUDO, Japan (Kyodo) -- Ozeki Kotozakura said he will try to remain his "usual self" while bidding for yokozuna promotion ...

Japan striker Koki Ogawa scored his sixth goal of the season in the Dutch Eredivisie on Sunday as NEC Nijmegen lost 4-1 away ...

The 20-year-old freshman student was still asleep that Sunday morning at the family's house on the Andaman Sea coast of ...

Riken research institute is seen in Wako, Saitama Prefecture, in this file photo taken on Dec. 1, 2020. (Mainichi) TOKYO -- ...