A Singaporean man has been arrested in Japan for allegedly committing indecent acts with a teenage boy at a hot spring, ...

Shizuoka Prefecture has recorded the longest estimated average healthy life expectancy for both men and women as of 2022, at 73.75 and 76.68 years respectively, the health ministry said Tuesday.

“The saddest thing in life,” runs an old Japanese proverb, “is to be born a woman.” In the feudal days before MacArthur, it contained more than a grain of truth; Japanese women then were ...

The call came after a Chinese student, who was rescued twice from Mount Fuji, said he went back the second time to try to retrieve his phone Officials in Japan are calling for new rules to charge ...

A woman who went missing on Monday while swimming at a beach in Shizuoka Prefecture was found alive 36 hours later off the coast of Chiba Prefecture on Wednesday morning, according to the Japan ...

A woman plunged to her death after losing her footing from a bridge while filming wild deer in Japan on Saturday. The incident took place at around 9.30am in the town of Higashi-Izu in Shizuoka ...

Mina Watanabe has made it her life’s work to tell the stories of the women who were sexually enslaved by the Japanese military before and during World War II. By Vivian Morelli Reporting from ...