More than 90 percent of child abuse and sexual crime victims and their families didn’t receive compensation from their assailants, nor public financial assistance, largely ...

Two Tokyo lawyers said Thursday they plan to sue hundreds of internet rightists, who the lawyers say campaigned to have them reprimanded over their apparent ...

Three people in their 70s sued the state for damages on Thursday, claiming they were sterilized against their will under the now-defunct eugenics protection law.Kikuo ...

A TV Asahi drama producer’s 2015 death due to heart failure was determined by labor authorities later that year to be caused by overwork, sources ...

At least 100 bamboo plants in Kyoto’s Arashiyama district have been vandalized by tourists, who apparently engraved their names and initials, a company managing the ...

A 28-year-old worker at a Tokyo-based system development company died from overwork in August 2017, about a month after he began to work under the ...

The regional rivalry in East Asia will help make the 2020 Tokyo Olympics successful, according to a leading sports photographer who has documented the past ...

When it comes to repairing the specialized equipment of Paralympic athletes, technicians experiment with the latest technologies on the spot, even though their work can ...

The health ministry, at the urging of a study panel Wednesday, is expected to lift a ban this year on the use of the influenza ...

Deputy Prime Minister Taro Aso touched on the planned summit between Washington and Pyongyang on Wednesday with a comment appearing to ridicule an aged North ...

A monk working for a temple at the World Heritage Site of Mount Koya in western Japan has filed a suit for damages, claiming he ...

The ruling LDP-led coalition along with the nominal opposition party Nippon Ishin no Kai submitted a bill to the Lower House on Wednesday to establish ...

Shigetada Kishii, a former anchor of with the news program News 23, died Tuesday of lung cancer at his Tokyo home. He was 73.Kishii joined ...

North Korea’s ruling party newspaper, the Rodong Sinmun, has lashed out at attempts by Tokyo to urge Washington to address its nuclear and missile programs ...

The world’s first cloned cow died of old age Monday, according to the prefectural government of Ishikawa.The female cow, Noto, was 19 years and 10 ...

The world’s first clinical study for treating heart failure with so-called iPS cells could start in Japan in the coming months as the country’s health ...

The Diet on Wednesday passed a bill seeking to boost the number of female lawmakers and assembly members in a nation where women have long ...

A Japanese court gave three Taiwanese women suspended sentences Wednesday after finding them guilty of attempting to smuggle gold worth ¥50 million ($453,000) into the ...

Most dinosaurs buried their eggs and hoped for the best, but some species — including a few hefty ones — built nests and pampered unhatched ...

A tower of Kumamoto Castle, which was hit hard by powerful quakes in 2016, appeared to defy gravity on Tuesday as the local government showed ...