The exhibition “En Route” at the Vatican Apostolic Library features historical artefacts and contemporary artistic ...

At a bookstore event here half a year ago, this Mainichi Shimbun reporter met a woman from Peru who said she has lived in ...

A Japanese woman whose Irish ex-husband has been arrested on suspicion of murder after her body was found in a Budapest apartment fire had previously reported she had been the subject of domestic ...

A 40-year-old Korean man in Tokyo has been arrested for scouting a Japanese woman in her 20s to be a prostitute in the United States. According to the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, the suspect ...

Last autumn, the U.N. committee reviewed Japan's efforts to eliminate discrimination against women for the first time in eight years. It concluded that the provisions of the Imperial House Law are ...

“She was worried that the police wouldn’t act unless she was covered in blood,” the acquaintance said. As previously reported, a fire broke out on January 29 in a third-floor apartment in central ...

Yang Shuang-zi (楊?子), the book’s author, and Lin King (金翎), the translator, embarked on a tour comprising five dates and ...

Tomiko Itooka, a Japanese woman who was the world’s oldest person according to Guinness World Records, has died, an Ashiya city official said Saturday. She was 116. Yoshitsugu Nagata ...

Hungarian police said Tuesday that disciplinary action has been taken against five officers for failing to respond to a Japanese woman's reports of domestic abuse by her ex-husband. The 43-year ...

But on Oct. 11, Sadao Uematsu, chairman of the Japan Library Association, submitted an opinion paper to the education ministry that said the request could not be accepted. The document said the ...

The Women’s Lacrosse League (WLL) is set to capitalize on lacrosse’s rapid growth, launching in 2025 with ESPN broadcast ...