A Japanese court has convicted a man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at Japan's former Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event, sentencing him to 10 years in prison ...

Gil Won-ok, survivor of Japan’s wartime military sexual slavery, dies at 96 - Gil was a vocal critic of Japan’s refusal to ...

Marcus Detrez displays the photos he intends to donate in Beijing on Tuesday. Detrez believes the photos document the ...

Frenchman Marcus Detrez was leafing through an album of photos depicting his grandfather's fulfilling life in Shanghai in the ...

The American base on Okinawa has relocated 105 Marines. But an agreement to move 9,000 in total is colliding with the ...

Strange Stories of WWII, Hiroo Onoda was a Japanese intelligence officer in the Imperial Japanese Army, who refused to surrender until decades after World War II had ended.

Residents of the Japanese island see U.S. bases as a legacy of war and colonialism, but younger generations also worry about ...

Japan’s demographic challenges are stark. In 2024, the number of citizens aged 65 and older reached a record 36.25 million, representing 29.3% of the population—making Japan the fastest-aging ...

An 81-year-old Japanese woman, Akiyo, commits crimes intentionally to avoid loneliness and receive stable living conditions in jail. Reflecting on her decisions, she lamented her lack of financial ...

In an incident that highlights the ageing population crisis in Japan, an elderly woman deliberately committed crimes to secure a place in prison so that she could live for free, having been abandoned.

Much of Japan’s public infrastructure was built between the 1960s and 1970s during an economic boom in the wake of World War II, during which much of Tokyo was destroyed by American bombing raids.