According to the association, 50.5% of respondents chose coughing and sneezing, making it the top-ranked annoying behavior ...

A bear measuring about 90 centimeters from head to tail was found in the living room of a house belonging to a man in his 60s ...

Major defense equipment maker Kawasaki Heavy Industries Ltd. engaged in fictitious transactions with business partners for ...

Kyushu Railway Co. said Monday it will terminate its ferry service between Fukuoka in southwestern Japan and South Korea's ...

Tokyo stocks opened slightly higher Tuesday as technology issues tracked overnight gains by their U.S. counterparts.

Following a rule change this year sparked by high schools' reliance on foreign runners, international students were only ...

The Norwegian Nobel Committee commended Nihon Hidankyo's work of demonstrating the inhumanity of nuclear weapons through ...

Shohei Ohtani is keeping elite company. The Japanese superstar caps 2024 by winning The Associated Press Male Athlete of the ...

More than 2,500 people gathered here on Dec. 22 to protest against a spate of sexual assaults by U.S. servicemen stationed in ...

The Saitama District Court on Dec. 20 rejected a lawsuit by a 64-year-old life science researcher over what he claims was an ...

A Japanese court sentenced on Monday a former local assembly member to 19 years in prison for suffocating his wife to death ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Dec. 14 ...