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TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A delegation of the U.N. Human Rights Council on Tuesday spoke with former members of Japan's top male talent agency Johnny & Associates Inc. who accused its late founder of sexual abuse, interviewees said.
OSAKA (Kyodo) -- Concerns are growing among the organizers of the 2025 World Exposition in Osaka that the event may flop due to the slower-than-antici
NAGASAKI -- An English teacher whose employment contract with Nagasaki University was terminated just before he would have been eligible to claim an unfixed term is set to return to work indefinitely after a court settlement.
WAKAYAMA -- The Wakayama prefectural teachers' union is demanding that foreign instructors who have passed a prefectural teachers' license exam be emp
TOKYO -- A deputy mayor of the capital's Shibuya Ward called an assembly member a "pig" on a Microsoft Teams app chat that can be viewed by ward executives, the assemblyperson revealed at a press conference on Aug. 7.
NAGASAKI -- An English teacher whose employment contract with Nagasaki University was terminated just before he would have been eligible to claim an unfixed term is set to return to work indefinitely after a court settlement.
SAPPORO (Kyodo) -- The mother of a woman who was arrested for allegedly mutilating the corpse of a decapitated man found in a Sapporo hotel room earlier this month said her daughter was previously involved in a violent incident with him, investigative sources said Wednesday.
TOKYO -- A social welfare corporation based in the capital's Sumida Ward revealed on Sept. 28 that it is planning to establish a "baby hatch" at one of its hospitals in the ward in fiscal 2024 to anonymously accept infants whose parents are unable to raise them.
FUKUSHIMA -- One of the three former Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) members who have been accused of indecently assaulting then colleague Rina Gonoi denied the allegations in a trial on Sept. 25 and insisted that Gonoi is "lying" about the damage.
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- A U.N. Human Rights Council delegation urged the Japanese government on Friday to lead efforts in conducting a transparent investigation and supporting sex abuse victims after it examined abuse claims involving the late founder of Japan's top male talent agency, Johnny & Associates Inc.
OTSU -- A former assistant nurse who was acquitted in a retrial after serving more than a decade in prison over the death of a patient was urged by a district court here not to wear an "Innocence Project" T-shirt during her subsequent damages suit, it has been learned.
ONOMICHI, Hiroshima -- The government of this west Japan city on July 24 suspended the distribution of flyers aimed at counselling pregnant women amid a flurry of criticism over their gender-biased undertones.
NAGOYA -- A 30-year-old man here who claims to "have caught about 50 video voyeurs" has been arrested for allegedly taking an upskirt video.
-Japan confirmed that the Chinese survey ship Xiang Yang Hong 22 set up the buoy in mid-June while monitoring the vessel as it sailed through Japan’s exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the East China Sea, a government source said. The open-sea area in question is surrounded by Japan’s EEZ....
The Osaka District Court on July 4 recognized an African man in his 30s who fled to Japan from his own country fearing persecution for his homosexuality as a refugee, overturning a government decision not to grant him asylum....
TOKYO – A 25-year-old man has been served a fresh arrest warrant for allegedly creating a computer virus using generative artificial intelligence (AI), the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD)'s cybercrime control division announced on May 28, in what is believed to be the first such case in Japan....
An official at the Kyoto District Legal Affairs Bureau who allegedly grabbed and kicked a subordinate for revealing the plot of the popular manga “Oshi no Ko” has been reported to public prosecutors on suspicion of assault, sources familiar with the case have disclosed....
China has sharply ramped up its production of cheap electric vehicles, solar panels, and batteries just as the Biden administration has pushed through legislation supporting many of those same industries in the United States. ⠀...
TOKYO – Japanese manga artist Akira Toriyama, famous around the world for the “Dragon Ball” series and “Dr. Slump,” among other works, died on March 1, publisher Shueisha Inc. has announced.
GINAN, Gifu -- The mayor of this central Japan town on Feb. 28 announced his intention to resign after an investigative committee confirmed he had sexually harassed female staff at least 99 times....
TOKYO (Kyodo) -- The chairman of a subsidiary of Japanese major oil refiner Eneos Holdings Inc. has been dismissed over sexual harassment, the firm said Wednesday, in the third such incident within the corporate group since 2022.
HIBA -- A high number of teachers in east Japan's Chiba Prefecture have recently been slapped with disciplinary measures for sexual assault against their students or children.
TOKYO -- The disapproval rate for Prime Minister Fumio Kishida's Cabinet hit 79% in a Mainichi Shimbun nationwide opinion poll conducted on Dec. 16.
NIIGATA -- A symposium on making gender-neutral school uniforms inclusive of students in the LGBTQ+ community was held Nov. 18 in this central Japan prefectural capital.
