The child who will ride atop the Naginata Boko float, which leads the first procession of the ancient Japanese capital's Gion ...

A bill to revise the Imperial House Law has passed the House of Representatives. It would allow female members of the ...

Four people were stabbed at an outlet of rental movie giant Tsutaya in Saiki, Oita Prefecture, on July 13, leaving one person ...

A day after a Japanese oil tanker crossed the Strait of Hormuz for the first time since the United States and Israel launched ...

A roughly 7-centimeter-long insect wearing electronic equipment on its back moves forward in a zigzag. It is an ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between July 4 and ...

Japan's Akie Iwai vied for her first major title on the LPGA Tour until the final hole but fell a stroke short of m ...

Japan's parliament on Monday enacted a law to establish a disaster management agency that will oversee crisis response and ...

Tens of thousands of people chanted slogans in opposition to the Japanese government's plans to increase defense spending and ...

Japanese top seed Tokito Oda successfully defended his Wimbledon men's wheelchair singles crown with a 6-1, 6-1 win over No.

On July 5, the city of Kasukabe in Saitama Prefecture unveiled maintenance hole covers featuring images based on popular ...

Japanese startup SkyDrive Inc. conducted high-speed demonstration flights of its "flying car" on Monday at a test site in ...