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

Expo 2025 Osaka, Kansai, Japan, ends on Oct. 13 after half a year. As the Expo entered its final stages, the number of ...

TOKYO -- Make your home a "place hard to enter and easy to see," a crime prevention expert advises as a surge in burglaries ...

Following a spate of injuries from bear attacks in residential areas, a research team at Japan's Sophia University has ...

President Donald Trump called for a new era of harmony in the Middle East on Monday during a global summit on Gaza's fu ...

An All Nippon Airways plane turned back to Tokyo's Haneda airport about an hour after takeoff Monday evening, with transport ...

Over 10,000 red fire ants, along with at least 8,000 eggs, larvae and pupae, were discovered at the Port of Tokyo's Aomi ...

A day care worker in the Japanese capital's Shinjuku Ward reportedly hit the head of a child who was reluctant to eat, ...

A powerful typhoon was passing through the Izu island chain south of Tokyo on Monday after part of the chain was lashed by a ...

The World Exposition in Osaka came to a close Monday after a six-month run that drew more than 25 million visitors through ...

Chinese coast guard ships used powerful water cannons on Sunday and rammed and slightly damaged an anchored Philippine gov ...