I have spent years studying and teaching Japanese anime, exploring how its narratives intertwine with cultural, philosophical and religious traditions. One of the most compelling aspects of Japanese ...

A Japanese court has awarded ¥217 million ($1.4 million) to Iwao Hakamada, 89, who was acquitted in 2023 after spending more ...

Iwao Hakamata, Japan’s longest-serving death row inmate, wins historic compensation for enduring 'extremely severe' mental ...

Iwao Hakamada, 89, who is believed to have been the world’s longest-serving death row inmate, was exonerated last year of a ...

An 89-year-old Japanese man who spent nearly half a century on death row for a 1966 quadruple murder before being exonerated ...

Japan has awarded a wrongly convicted man who was on death row for close to half a century compensation of 217 million yen ...

Thirty years on from the fatal sarin nerve gas attack in Tokyo’s subway network, survivors and families who lost loved ones ...

On March 20, 1995, 12 people were killed, and more than 5,000 made ill in a nerve-gas attack on the Tokyo subway system. A ...

He told police he did not intend to kill her. Violent crimes are still rare in Japan, where gun control is extremely strict, but there have been a number of high profile knife attacks and others ...

Mogami Ai, a popular Japanese voice actor and live streamer, was stabbed to death by an alleged 'anti-fan' while she was streaming on Whowatch in Shinjuku, Tokyo, local media outlets reported on ...

Japan’s oldest lion ... Despite suggestions of euthanasia, zookeepers chose to care for him until his natural death. Nile had taken the title from another male lion named Leo.

Police officers investigating the scene where a woman was stabbed near JR Takadanobaba Station at 11:16 a.m. on Tuesday morning. This photo was taken from a Yomiuri Shimbun helicopter. The Yomiuri ...