The bodies of two men and two women were found inside a light passenger vehicle parked on a forest road in Okazaki City, Aichi Prefecture, on Saturday, in what police believe was a joint suicide.

A Japanese court overturned a 13.3 trillion yen damages verdict on Friday against ex-bosses of the operator of the stricken Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant, thought to be the largest such award ever ...

A Chinese tourist was slashed by a knife-wielding person on a street in Kyoto on Friday evening after the two men had an argument, local police said. The assailant, who was previously unknown to the ...

A lawmaker of Japan's main opposition party said Saturday that government rice reserves recently put on sale are mostly consumed by chickens, doubling down on remarks that could be perceived as ...

In April, customs officials at Osaka’s Kansai International Airport learned that a woman who was trying to enter Japan had crammed a sock into the crotch of her clothing. Apparently the bulge wasn’t ...

Have you seen the Netflix series called “My Husband Won’t Fit”? A happy Japanese couple’s marriage slowly decays because of their troubled sex life. After numerous failed attempts at having ...

"The perception that Japan is a healthy democracy with an egalitarian society is nothing but a big lie. Rather, a strict status system remains in place." Thus proclaims the introductory passage in ...