We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Jan. 31 ...

Minor Japanese opposition parties Sanseito and Team Mirai both dramatically increased their seats in the proportional ...

GUANGZHOU, China (Kyodo) -- Cosplay and merchandise sales of popular Japanese anime series "Detective Conan" have been banned ...

Japan's ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has won a landslide victory in the Feb. 8 House of Representatives election, ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Japan's top government spokesman on Monday expressed "grave concern" that the sentencing to 20 years in ...

Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings Inc. restarted a reactor at its seven-unit nuclear power plant in Niigata Prefecture, ...

Yoshihiko Noda and Tetsuo Saito, co-leaders of the main opposition Centrist Reform Alliance, said Monday they will resign to take res ...

The Nikkei stock index briefly jumped over 5 percent on Monday morning to surpass 57,000 for the first time after Japan's ...

Japan's prime minister is a heavy metal music fan. She loves motorcycles and playing the drums, including with visiting ...

Bears entered areas near human dwellings despite being adequately nourished, even during years when acorns were scarce in ...

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is poised to make significant gains in the Feb. 8 House of Representatives election ...

Japan's main opposition party, the Centrist Reform Alliance, is set to lose a significant number of seats in Sunday's House ...