After nearly 40 seconds of intense grappling in a sumo training bout, Yarden Yatkovski, 27, throws down a wrestler ranked in ...

New yokozuna Onosato blew away rising Ukrainian talent Aonishiki, but fellow grand champion Hoshoryu suffered his first loss ...

Floats paraded through the streets of downtown Fukuoka July 13 during the Hakata Gion Yamakasa festival, to the cheers of ...

The election for Japan's upper house will be held on July 20, and some early voters have already cast their ballots. While ...

The Japanese government plans to appoint Taro Yamato, who leads the Defense Ministry's policy bureau, as its next top ...

Los Angeles Dodgers right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto bounced back from his shortest Major League Baseball start with a seven-i ...

Two people were killed and 12 others injured Monday in an accident involving a head-on collision between a bus and a truck on ...

Police in Lanzhou, the capital of northwestern China's Gansu Province, launched a campaign earlier this year targeting ...

A model-petting zoo featuring realistic animal models has been set up at a school for students with limited vision in this ...

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between July 5 and ...

European trade ministers are meeting in Brussels on Monday, following U.S. President Donald Trump's surprise announcement of ...

The Japan Air Self-Defense Force (ASDF)'s Blue Impulse aerobatics team showcased its aerial performances above areas around ...