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 ...

A prominent Japanese politician is taking paternity leave, setting a powerful example for the country’s workaholic fathers. Japan’s laws provide some of the most generous paternity leave in ...

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 ...

Japan and South Korea are marking the 60th anniversary of the normalization of their diplomatic relations on Sunday, as both ...

Never, it seems, have the Japanese felt the absence of credible politicians quite so acutely. On Feb. 27 the mainstream Asahi Shimbun newspaper captured the mood in an op-ed when it pleaded ...

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 ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito has paid respects to atomic bombing victims in Hiroshima as the city marks the 80th anniversary of ...

The comedian-turned-politician had branded the worker a liar ... far less punishment than robbers routinely receive in Japan. (Taking property with “strong force” usually gets a five-year ...