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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ayaka Yoshida, a 27-year-old Japanese politician, faced death threats after proposing free sanitary pads in public toilets on social media. Despite the backlash and intimidation, she remains ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

An influential Japanese politician has thrown his weight behind Washington’s widening campaign to contain China’s chip ambitions, warning that Beijing is part of a group of nations seeking ...