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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Former New York Yankee and free agent Masahiro Tanaka is on the radar of the Yomiuri Giants in the Central League, a source ...

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

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

At Damascus' international airport, the new head of security -- one of the rebels who marched across Syria to the capital -- ...

Israel said Sunday it will close its embassy in Ireland as relations deteriorated over the war in Gaza, where Palest ...