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

Kinuko Iwamoto, former chancellor of Tokyo Women's Medical University, was served a fresh arrest warrant Monday over ...

It was difficult to meet new people while staying in Japanese capsule hotels. Hostels were more social.

Tokyo's Minato Ward will provide an additional subsidy of up to 100,000 yen (about $643) to women utilizing the capital's subsidies to freeze･･･ ...

Dozens of people soaked and splashed themselves in painfully icy cold water in a pool at a Tokyo shrine, adhering to Japanese tradition to purify the soul and pray for good health in the new year.

But this isn’t a nursing home – it’s Japan’s largest women’s prison ... an officer at Tochigi Women’s Prison located north of ...

Tokyo — Eight people were wounded in a hammer attack at a university in Tokyo on Friday, with a 22-year-old student arrested at the scene, Japanese media said. All those hurt were conscious ...

TOKYO, Japan — Takeda Pharmaceuticals has named Julie Kim as the first woman to lead the 244-year-old Japanese drugmaker, a rarity in senior management in the world's fourth-largest economy. Kim, a US ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan on Wednesday said it will freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel that called for an end to the country’s male-only imperial succession rule.

The president and chairperson of Japanese network Fuji Television have resigned over a widening sex assault scandal linked to ...

Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...