“There are very good people in this prison,” Akiyo told CNN. “Perhaps this life is the most stable for me.” The companionship offered by prison is the main appeal for these elderly women, along with ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese court on Wednesday 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, ...

A U.S. Marine was sentenced in a Japanese court to seven years in prison after he was convicted of sexually assaulting a woman in Okinawa last year, the latest case to spark outrage among residents on ...

SHIZUOKA, Japan (WKRC) - The world's longest-serving death row inmate has been acquitted after it was discovered that investigators planted evidence to frame him. 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Tokyo court handed down prison terms for the American father and son accused of helping Nissan’s former chairman, Carlos Ghosn, escape to Lebanon while awaiting trial in Japan. Michael ...

A man was sentenced to 10 years in prison Wednesday for attempting to kill Japan's ex-prime minister Fumio Kishida with a ...

Surprisingly, many of the countries that today have the strictest drug policies also hide a history where those same substances were of great cultural significance. For example, Japan once boasted a ...

BEIJING (AP) — A Japanese man was sentenced Wednesday to three and a half years in prison in China on espionage charges, according to the Japanese embassy in Beijing. The embassy did not identify the ...

Japan, known for its robust aging population, was ranked the healthiest country to age in by the National Center for Health Statistics in December. Okinawa, Japan, is also considered a blue zone, home ...