An information technology provider and a lawyer are offering a free website for technical trainees from Vietnam and elsewhere to learn about life in Japan. The Lightboat website is filled with ...

A London-based lawyer at the forefront of international efforts to abolish capital punishment has criticized Japan for its retention of the death penalty and said the country’s rationale ...

Ruling coalition lawmakers stood in the Japanese Diet on Thursday morning to signal acceptance of the new law Japan's lawmakers have passed a controversial bill allowing authorities to target ...

A group of Korean cartoonists will exhibit some 50 works featuring depictions of women forced into sexual slavery by Japan during World War II at an international cartoon festival to be held in ...

Two nine-year-olds were among the 25,000 people forcibly sterilised in Japan under its post-World War Two eugenics law, a parliament report has revealed. The law, in place for 48 years ...

Japanese politicians are debating amendments to the country's immigration law in an attempt to address the long-term detention of some foreigners. But the UN has already come out against the ...

Replicas of a sword featured in the Harry Potter film franchise have been recalled in Japan for violating the country's strict weapons law. The full-sized replicas of Godric Gryffindor's sword ...

Anti-whaling activist Paul Watson was freed from prison in Greenland on Tuesday and will not be extradited to Japan, the Danish Justice Ministry and defense lawyers said. Japan had asked Denmark ...

Japan's competition watchdog is expected to find Google guilty of violating the country's antitrust law, Nikkei Asia reported on Sunday, citing sources. The Japan Fair Trade Commission(JFTC ...