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

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 ...

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

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

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

Female footballers in Japan are driving changes to kits long treated as one-size-fits-all, pushing teams and manufacturers to ...

A huge fire engulfed a pub in Bangkok early Monday morning, killing at least 27 people before firefighters brought the blaze ...

Typhoon Bavi weakened to a tropical storm on Sunday, hours after making landfall in eastern China 's Zhejiang province, but ...

Grand champion Onosato suffered his second straight defeat to start the Nagoya Grand Sumo Tournament on Monday, losing to ...

The United States launched several waves of strikes on Iran on Sunday over an Iranian attack on a container ship i ...

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