Courtney Love has described her experience being "trafficked" by the Yakuza as a teenager and forced to strip in Japan as a ...

Japan's planned troop deployment to the Philippines drew backlash, with activists demanding a wartime apology before ...

They were people who exercised state authority against speech they disliked, and who had sworn not to do exactly that.

For years, Sarah* has tried to have videos of her rape at the hands of a trafficker removed from mainstream porn sites.

He performs under the stage name Gen, and he invoked the concept of sampling music while explaining that he had used textiles ...

Okinawa’s government plans a formal protest over a Marine Corps helicopter’s precautionary landing that forced a youth baseball team to flee a practice field.

A Moroccan court has sentenced a rapper known for his criticism of the country’s ties with Israel and government corruption to eight months in prison.

Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi listens to questions posed by Centrist Reform Alliance member Yuki Waseda about connections with the former Unification Church, in the Diet on March 12, 2026.

Japanese lawmakers and Uyghur activists gathered on February 25 at an event hosted by the Japan Uyghur Association in Tokyo to address the Chinese government’s atrocity crimes in the Xinjiang Uyghur ...

Japan is preparing to establish missile-launching capabilities on an island almost 70 miles from Taiwan. Japanese Defense Minister Shinjiro Koizumi said the government is hoping to complete the ...

The destroyer JS Kaga, the second ship of the Izumo class. Credit: Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force In March 2026, the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) will undertake its most sweeping ...