Japan leads the world in per capita sales of adult diapers. Japan’s population is getting so old that one major diaper manufacturer is now making products only for adults, not for babies. Japan’s ...

Leniency for Tamotsu Shiiki reflects country’s prejudices against young victims of sexual violence, observers say.

Akiyo was lodged in Tochigi Women's Prison, Japan's largest women's prison, located north of Tokyo. It houses nearly 500 ...

An 81-year-old Japanese woman, Akiyo, commits crimes intentionally to avoid loneliness and receive stable living conditions ...

Rescue teams are continuing efforts to rescue a 74-year-old man trapped in a sinkhole at an intersection in Yashio, Saitama, ...

Japanese parents of the growing number of children attending international school in Japan often feel overwhelmed due to a ...

Japanese authorities have asked hundreds of residents near Tokyo to evacuate as a sinkhole at an intersection grew to more ...

Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba arrived in Washington on Thursday for his first summit with U.S. President Donald ...

After a random knife assault at a bus stop in front of JR Nagano station on January 22 left one person dead and two injured, Nikkan Gendai (Jan 25) raised the issue of how incidents of this nature ...

The 47-year-old rapper appeared alongside his wife, Bianca Censori, at the awards ceremony – with the latter wearing a ...

A massive sinkhole near Tokyo that swallowed a truck and its driver a week ago, and has filled with sewage and debris, ...

Risa Furusawa, Aika Sano, Kana Itakura, Ayano Masuda, Emiru Kawamoto, Miyu Umeda, Nagisa Manabe & Haruka Sakuraba spoke to .