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 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 ...

Romania's designated prime minister Ilie Bolojan will ask parliament on Monday for a vote of confidence in his coalition that ...

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 ...

Japan politician apologises for remark about ‘women removing their uteruses after 30’ - Naoki Hyakuta brought up the controversial idea in a YouTube programme, although he emphasised that he ...

His party may be moving on, however. It recently changed its name to the Female Politicians 48 party. Under Japan’s electoral system, another member from the party will be appointed to take his ...

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 ...

A popular Japanese professional wrestler and lawmaker Antonio Inoki, who faced a world boxing champion Muhammad Ali in a mixed martial arts match in 1976, has died at 79. Inoki brought Japanese ...

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

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 ...