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

Follow the latest news headlines from Australia's most trusted source. Read in-depth expert analysis and watch live coverage on ABC News.

Public mea culpas are a corporate ritual in Japan. For Fuji TV, the resignations and public apologies of two bosses didn’t ...

Escape the crowds and visit 3 of Japan’s lesser-known treasures: Taketomi Island’s beaches, Yamaguchi’s history and Nasu’s ...

Japan's government on Tuesday nominated Junko Koeda, an academic who had warned of the cost of prolonged monetary easing, to ...

Tokyo police Monday arrested two members of Natural, one of Japan’s biggest sex worker scout groups, for allegedly introducing women to sexual service establishments. The Metropolitan Police ...

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s organized crime division arrested two men Jan. 27 on suspicion of arranging jobs ...

Fuji TV chairman Shuji Kano and president Koichi Minato stepped down to take responsibility for an alleged sexual assault by a TV host at a 2023 dinner that the Japanese network is alleged to helped ...

The scandal centres on Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan’s once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, and his costly ...

(Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Kenji Yamanami), a company dedicated to developing "Smaopi," an AI-powered breast cancer screening tool that uses AI technology to analyze ...

Japan's Fuji Media said on Monday its chairman and the head of its TV unit would step down immediately amidst a probe into ...