Police have launched an investigation into the leader of a far-right civic group who held protests across the country calling ...

Police in Hidaka, Hokkaido, have arrested a 49-year-old man on suspicion of abandoning the body of a woman in hers 20s behind the wall at a bar he manages. Police said Toshihiko Matsukura, who was ...

Japanese police said Thursday they had arrested a 75-year-old woman who allegedly confessed to keeping the body of her daughter in a freezer for two decades. Investigators on Tuesday found the body of ...

Takaichi Sanae’s appointment as Japan’s first woman prime minister is a historic accomplishment and has been hailed by many as a step forward for women’s rights. But her government inherits an ...