Tens of thousands attended a Japanese and South Korean cultural exchange event that was held for the 20th time on Sept. 22 in ...

A resident here recorded a video of a flooded river just before houses and a car were swept away as torrential rain hit the ...

Two people have been confirmed dead and 8 others were safely rescued from a landslide site on the Noto Peninsula in Ishikawa ...

With Japan remaining wedded to the death penalty despite a shift away from capital punishment among many developed nations, ...

A woman who was given only two weeks to live by her doctor managed to fulfill her dreams before she passed away this summer ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers' Shohei Ohtani has become the first player to achieve 50 home runs and 50 stolen bases in Major ...

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

Japan's Hinano Kusaki earned her second consecutive silver medal at the world park skateboarding championships Sunday in Rome ...

A study group in Hyogo Prefecture is calling for equal educational opportunities for children of foreign roots as their lack ...

Shohei Ohtani, 30, of Major League Baseball's Los Angeles Dodgers hit three consecutive home runs and stole two bases in a ...

Former Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda won the leadership election of Japan's main opposition party on Monday, as it gears up ...

A Japanese research team has found protein variants that increase during exercise and help burn fat, possibly opening a path ...