"Rental Family," a moving drama from Searchlight Pictures starring Brendan Fraser, is sure to spark interest in Japan's ...

Police in Sapporo have arrested a 76-year-old woman on suspicions of stealing items from a supermarket. Police said the woman is suspected of stealing seven items (with a total retail price of 3,167 ...

Sanae Takaichi made history by becoming Japan's first female prime minister in October. She must now decide whether she'll break another barrier: the taboo barring women from the sumo ring. The winner ...

South Korean prosecutors have indicted a Japanese woman without arrest for allegedly forcibly kissing a member of BTS, widely regarded as the world's most famous K-pop group, at an event in Seoul in ...

A Ground Self-Defense Force member was arrested Saturday for attempted murder after a woman in her 40s was stabbed and suffered serious wounds in Tokyo's Akasaka district days earlier, police said.

A former staffer for a congressman told authorities she was attacked by three armed men who tied her up, slashed her and scrawled an anti-Trump statement on her stomach while she was walking in a New ...

Israel’s military on Saturday launched airstrikes against Hamas militants in Gaza in the latest test of the ceasefire that began on Oct. 10, as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's office said five ...

The Tachikawa Branch of the Tokyo District Court has handed down a three-year prison sentence, suspended for five years, to a 71-year-old woman convicted of killing her 102-year-old mother at their ...

Hyogo prefectural police have arrested a 56-year-old doctor on suspicion of committing an indecent act on a hospitalized female patient. According to police, Takatsugu Ono, a gastroenterological ...

Yumeno Nito, leader of Tokyo-based Colabo, which provides support to women forced into prostitution. Lawmakers and support groups for women are calling for legal revisions to the anti-prostitution law ...

A U.S. Marine stationed in Okinawa said he could not recall any incident involving sexual assault and injury in a U.S. military base restroom in March, speaking at the first hearing of his trial at a ...

For Cindy Zhong, like many young Chinese women, a relaxing night used to mean curling up with a steamy story about two men in love. Then her favorite authors, and their tales, started disappearing.