In a troubling reflection of Japan's aging population crisis, an 81-year-old woman named Akiyo resorted to theft to secure a ...

Seven men have been arrested for allegedly forcing women into prostitution, mainly catering to foreigners visiting Japan as ...

Tokyo: With a large percentage of citizens over the age of 65, Japan is the country with the oldest population in the world.

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- New Japan women's basketball team head coach Corey Gaines vowed Monday to restore "respect" from the world ...

Japan is to freeze voluntary funding for a United Nations’ women’s rights panel over its recommendation that Japan’s male-only imperial succession rule should be revised from gender-equality ...

The Japanese network Fuji Television and its parent company say its president and chairperson have resigned over a widening ...

Chief cabinet secretary Yoshimasa Hayashi said Thursday that a visit by a member of the UN Committee on the Elimination of ...