With more young people turning away from traditional television, a revised Broadcasting Act was passed by Japan's National ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between Sept. 7 to ...

Hiroyuki Sanada on Sunday won the Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series for his starring role in the U.S.

The high court here has ruled that it was illegal for the Keio Plaza Hotel Sapporo to deny its now former accommodations ...

Kyoto Prefectural Police's mounted unit, in which officers ride horses, visited Fukuchiyama Municipal Miwa Elementary School ...

For many Haitian immigrants, Sunday mornings in Springfield, Ohio, are spent joyfully worshipping God as they sing and pray ...

A university in western Japan will establish a department specializing in dinosaur studies beginning next April as the field ...

Shohei Ohtani carried the offense through eight innings, delivering a pair of crucial RBI doubles, before the Los Angeles ...

The U.S. dollar briefly plunged to the 139 yen zone Monday in Asian trading, hitting its lowest level in over a year, amid ...

The scheduled launch of an H2A rocket carrying an information-gathering satellite from a space center on a southwestern Japan ...

Iran launched a satellite into space Saturday with a rocket built by the country's paramilitary Revolutionary Guard, ...

Major sushi restaurant chain operator Kura Sushi Inc. will offer sushi dishes as well as cuisines of other countries on a 135 ...