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

NEW YORK (AP) -- A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the sun than any object sent before. The Parker Solar Probe was ...

Japan's former Emperor Akihito turned 91 on Monday, spending most of his daily life peacefully while caring for his wife, ...

Rome's iconic Trevi Fountain reopened Sunday after three months of renovations, just in time for the inauguration of the 2025 ...

At the workshop of Chinjuen, a plant shop in Osaka Prefecture, people are busy shipping kadomatsu, decorations placed at ...

Former Olympus Corp. CEO Stefan Kaufmann pleaded guilty to the charge of buying illegal drugs at his first court hearing in ...

Santa Claus braved the sticky heat of the Amazon rainforest this weekend, taking two boats to bring gifts to children in a ...

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

Honda Motor Co. and Nissan Motor Co. have informed the Japanese government of their plan to start talks on a merger, a ...

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

A company in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, has not paid wages to around 150 Vietnamese technical trainees for at least one month, ...

Confusion is mounting as train passengers of lines operating in this central Japan city can now use contactless credit and ...