"Care to try our cafe?" "We'll pamper you and sweep you off your feet!" Calls like these fill the air in the Nipponbashi ...

It was in the late spring of 1955 that Japanese literature scholar Donald Keene first traveled to northeastern Japan's Tohoku ...

With the House of Councillors election looming this summer, a local assembly race in Tokyo on June 22 will likely give a ...

Some retailers are perplexed by continuing rice shortages in Japan despite the release of government stockpiles, while ...

A man was found collapsed and later died in Osaka Prefecture on Monday, prompting police to visit his home, where they found ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between May 24 and ...

A zookeeper demonstrated the daring task of brushing a hippo's teeth during a special event at Osaka Tennoji Zoo in this ...

A passenger car crashed through the fence on the side of a bridge and fell onto the shoulder of an expressway in this central ...

A commercial whaling ship returned to a port in northeastern Japan on Monday carrying 25 fin whales taken in the Sea of ...

Japan's agriculture minister Shinjiro Koizumi thanked the private sector for swift sales of government stockpiled rice ...

A Japanese social media personality has been arrested for allegedly extorting a man out of 3 million yen ($21,000) in ...

Former yokozuna Hakuho is expected to hold a press conference on June 9 to announce his retirement from the Japan Sumo ...