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NAGOYA, Japan, Aug. 4 (Xinhua) -- A China-Japan peace and friendship exchange meeting has been held in Japan's Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the victory in the ... ( read original story ...)

Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Nara Prefecture, has become Japan’s oldest living person. ( read original story ...)

Osaka's run at the Canadian Open is a promising sign for the hard-court season, but sustaining it is the real challenge. ( read original story ...)

Shigeko Kagawa, a 114-year-old retired physician from Yamatokoriyama, Nara Prefecture, has became Japan’s oldest living person, following the death of 114-year-old Miyoko Hiroyasu, the Ministry of ... ( read original story ...)

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 38-year-old man on suspicion of sexually assaulting a woman in her 30s at her home on July 31. According to police, Naoki Oshima, a truck driver, allegedly sexually ... ( read original story ...)

We've listed our five most read stories on The Mainichi news site, from top to bottom, that were published between July 26 and August 3. The first sto･･･ ... ( read original story ...)

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) posted a 1.8% fall in first-quarter net profit due to a change in the accounting period of a subsidiary in the same period a year prior, it said on Monday.Without ... ( read original story ...)

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG) posted a 2.2% rise in first-quarter net profit on Monday as loan demand in Japan and abroad rode out market volatility over the quarter, after stripping out a one ... ( read original story ...)

Japan's Mitsubishi Materials is considering scaling back copper concentrate processing at its Onahama Smelter & Refinery as falling treatment and processing charges (TC/RCs) weigh on earnings, it said ... ( read original story ...)

Seventeen heat records were broken in Japan on Monday, the weather agency said, after the country sweltered through its hottest ever June and July. ( read original story ...)