Oct. 29 (UPI) --A Japanese politician is requesting the removal of a new comfort woman statue in a borough in Berlin, Germany, on the grounds the memorial could incite anti-Japanese racism.

A Japanese politician says she received more than 8,000 death threats after proposing free sanitary pads in public toilets. Ayaka Yoshida, a 27-year-old member of the Japanese Communist Party ...

A female Japanese politician has received about 8,000 emails containing death threats after proposing free sanitary pads in public toilets - a wave of online abuse that experts say reflects a ...

For instance, in 2017, Yuka Ogata, a local Japanese politician, was confronted by lawmakers for trying to bring her baby to a council session. One councilman shouted at her while others told her ...

Another Japanese politician, Yuichiro Tamaki, apologised on Monday after confirming a tabloid report of his affair with a model. “I apologise for the trouble caused,” the leader of the ...

A senior Japanese politician advocated Tuesday for increasing his country's deterrence ability to ensure peace in the region, and called for that message to be clearly conveyed globally ...

China has made serious demarches to Japan and strongly condemns that certain Japanese politician visited China's Taiwan region and made irresponsible remarks that sought to hype up cross-Strait ...

As Beijing struggles to find the right stimulus for economic growth, a Chinese beverage company found a short-term solution – to capitalise on the Chinese public’s anger towards Japan over the ...

But in spite of a variety of factors colliding to make Japan a laggard, there are still a few key politicians moving the nation forward on climate change, providing some hope that Japan can move ...