Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s ...

A woman who intruded into the dormitory residence of Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya in January told dormitory staff that she ...

Public mea culpas are a corporate ritual in Japan. For Fuji TV, the resignations and public apologies of two bosses didn’t ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- New Japan women's basketball team head coach Corey Gaines vowed Monday to restore "respect" from the world ...

THE cast gathered in the recording studio, taking turns at the microphones as animated scenes from one of Japan’s most ...

For a peek into this peculiar world, Oshikatsu Izakaya Marumaru-no-kai is worth a visit. The restaurant, built like a karaoke ...

Seven men have been arrested for allegedly forcing women into prostitution, mainly catering to foreigners visiting Japan as ...

Japan's Coming of Age Day is a sure sign of winter, arriving after New Year celebrations and before the cherry blossom ...

Chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Thursday that a visit by a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 47-year-old unemployed woman on suspicion of sending approximately 16,000 messages to the official blog of actress-singer Chiemi Hori, disrupting the business of the ...

TOKYO, Japan - Japan said it would not fund a UN women's rights committee and suspended a member's visit over calls for the nation to change its male-only imperial succession rules. Chief cabinet ...

Tokyo police on Tuesday arrested the operator of a brothel targeting foreign visitors, marking the first nationwide crackdown ...