Shigeru Ishiba, who will be Japan's next prime minister after winning his party's leadership vote on Friday, is a seasoned ...

Iwao Hakamada, believed to be the world's longest-serving death row inmate, has been acquitted in a murder retrial in Japan ...

Red spider lilies are in full bloom and delighting visitors of Butsuryu-ji temple in the city of Uda, Nara Prefecture. The ...

In a retrial that began after he spent 45 years on death row, 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada was found not guilty of a 1966 ...

TOKYO: China fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into the Pacific Ocean on Wednesdy (Sept 25) in what was its first ...

Hakamada’s older sister, Hideko, has spent years campaigning to overturn her brother’s conviction (Picture: The Asahi Shimbun ...

A Japanese warship cruised through the Taiwan Strait for the first time to assert its freedom of navigation, local media said ...

Japan has sent a destroyer through the Taiwan Strait for the first time, Japanese media reported, amid increasing military ...

In 2020, the Supreme Court sided with the district court and ordered a new trial. According to The Mainichi Shimbun, one of ...

The nine candidates vying to become prime minister have been differentiated by their stances on a law requiring married ...

Years before Monster Hunter World, producer Ryozo Tsujimoto says a PSP game was the series' true turning point.

A man thought to be the longest-serving death row inmate in the world has been acquitted by a Japanese court at the age of 88 ...