An 81-year-old Japanese woman, Akiyo, commits crimes intentionally to avoid loneliness and receive stable living conditions ...

Tokyo's Minato Ward will provide an additional subsidy of up to 100,000 yen (about $643) to women utilizing the capital's ...

In Japan, a growing number of elderly individuals are deliberately committing crimes to secure a place in prison, ...

Japanese Americans held in prison camps were allowed to return home. But much of what they'd left behind was gone: homes, ...

A Chinese man who carried out a knife attack in eastern China last June that wounded a Japanese woman and her child and ...

Kinuko Iwamoto, former chancellor of Tokyo Women's Medical University, was served a fresh arrest warrant Monday over ...

More than 50 percent of women in Tokyo have fallen victim to “chikan” groping while riding on or waiting for trains, usually without any consequences for the perpetrator, a survey shows.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba’s government nominated female economist Junko Koeda to replace Seiji Adachi on the BOJ policy ...

Two Vietnamese women have been arrested for alleged impersonation during a Japanese language proficiency test, Osaka Prefectural Police annou･･･ ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s ...