The suspect, tatami store manager Sotatsu Yanase, 45, was arrested Friday on suspicion of abandoning and damaging the body of Shizuka Takase.

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

Foreign Minister Iwaya Takeshi said a woman he does not know had intruded into his parliamentary residence unit in ...

New Japan women's basketball team head coach Corey Gaines vowed Monday to restore "respect" from the world after the Tokyo Olympics silver medalist exited the Paris Games last summer with three ...

The group had up to about 1,500 scouts nationwide, and its annual revenue is believed to have reached about ¥5 billion.

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s organized crime division arrested two men Jan. 27 on suspicion of arranging jobs ...

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

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.