A dentist and a nurse were referred to prosecutors on Sept. 30 for allegedly causing the death of a patient by forcibly ...

Online media connected with the Beijing Daily newspaper have published an interview with a Chinese former staffer of Japan's ...

Fifty-two percent of respondents to a weekend Mainichi Shimbun poll said that they expect Shigeru Ishiba, the newly elected ...

Japan's incoming prime minister, Shigeru Ishiba, said Monday that a general election will be held on Oct. 27 to seek a public ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom vetoed a landmark bill aimed at establishing first-in-the-nation safety measures for large art ...

The Chinese government has agreed to lift the complete ban on seafood imports from Japan, put into force following the ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Sept. 21 ...

A high court on Monday sentenced a 26-year-old Japanese woman to eight years and six months in prison for defrauding three ...

Japanese consumers face price hikes in October on around 2,900 food and drink items, the most for a month so far this year, ...

The Mitsubishi Heavy Industries company launched the H2A rocket Number 49 from Tanegashima Space Center in Kagoshima ...

The Nikkei stock index plunged nearly 5 percent Monday, as exporters were sold on a stronger yen since Shigeru Ishiba won the ...

The number of people killed by flooding and landslides triggered by heavy rainfall over the weekend in Nepal has reached 193 ...