A person in their 50s who identifies themselves as neither male nor female filed a petition to the Kyoto Family Court on Dec.

The stabbings at a McDonald's restaurant here that left a 15-year-old girl dead have sent shockwaves throughout the area, and ...

Japan's Takumi Kanaya earned his U.S. PGA Tour card Sunday after holding onto third place in the fourth round o ...

Japanese Defense Minister Gen Nakatani is arranging a visit to Britain in January to discuss progress on the joint ...

Japan stopped issuing dedicated health insurance cards on Dec. 2 as the function is being incorporated into the ...

President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on Sunday thanked deep-pocketed Democratic donors who raised record sums ...

The head of MUFG Bank apologized on Monday over the alleged theft of more than 1 billion yen ($6.5 million) by a former ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- For the press heading into a second Trump administration, there's a balancing act between being prepared and ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Dec. 7 and ...

Workers at the Hiramatsu Seafoods Company factory in the city of Toyokawa, Aichi Prefecture, are busy making sweet simmered ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday met with Akie Abe, the widow of slain former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, ...

Tokyo stocks finished slightly lower Monday as investors grew cautious ahead of a Bank of Japan policy meeting later this ...