There is a lot to learn from the long, venerable tradition of gardening in Japan, a point made in last week’s Real Dirt, ...

Former defense minister Shigeru Ishiba will become Japan’s new prime minister after ... race that ended in a runoff vote. The 67-year-old takes control of the long-ruling, scandal-plagued ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Iwao Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka District Court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found ...

Japanese court finds 88-year-old man not guilty in retrial for murder after decades on death row, NHK says TOKYO -- Japanese court finds 88-year-old man not guilty in retrial for murder after ...

Sept. 26 (UPI) --An 88-year-old former boxer was acquitted in a rare Japanese retrial Thursday in a 1966 quadruple murder case after spending nearly half a century on death row. The Shizuoka ...

TOKYO — A 10-year-old student at a Japanese school in China died Thursday after he was stabbed on the way to school the day before, Japanese officials said as they demanded that Beijing do more ...

The debate over surnames has twice reached Japan’s Supreme Court, where justices ruled that Parliament should decide the issue. Another case is currently being heard in district courts in Tokyo and ...

Chinese authorities said the 10-year-old boy was a Japanese national born to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother, and he had been stabbed on his way to school at about 8 a.m. (0000 GMT ...

Japanese 10-year-old boy has died after being stabbed in China 44-year-old assailant attacked him near his school on Wednesday People gathered to lay wreaths by the school on Thursday Attack took ...

A 10-year-old Japanese boy stabbed by a man while on his way to school in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen died of his wounds early Thursday morning, the Japanese government said, sparking fears ...

Chinese authorities said the 10-year-old boy was a Japanese national born to a Japanese father and a Chinese mother, and he had been stabbed on his way to school at about 8 AM on Wednesday by a ...

The suspect, a 44-year-old man, was seized, they said. Japanese media reported that the boy was a 10-year-old Japanese national living in the southern Chinese city, and was attacked near a ...