Experts say abusive messages reflect a deeper pattern of gender-based harassment aiming to silence outspoken women and are frequent occurrences A female Japanese politician has received about 8,000 ...

A medical transport helicopter fell into the sea in southwestern Japan, killing the patient and two other people.

A Japanese politician has received nearly 8,000 emails of death threats after she called for menstrual products to be made available in public restrooms. At such a critical moment in US history, we ...

Ayaka Yoshida, a 27-year-old member of the Japanese Communist Party, says she was "scared" after being bombarded by the ...

Japan’s Emperor Naruhito is visiting Iwo Jima to pay tribute to those who died on the island where one of World War II's ...

A former professional boxer who spent 46 years on death row after he was framed for murder by police has been awarded a record £1 million. A Japanese court has awarded Iwao Hakamada more than 200 ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a 1966 murder conviction. By Yan Zhuang A Japanese court awarded $1.4 ...

A Japanese man who spent more than 40 years on death row until he was acquitted last year has been awarded $1.4 million in compensation, a court said on Tuesday – roughly $85 for each day he was ...

Nearly 50 years on death row had inflicted "extremely severe" mental and physical pain on Iwao Hakamata, a judge said.