A high court on Monday rejected an appeal seeking to overturn the acquittal of a 30-year-old woman accused of murdering her wealthy elderly husband, a self-professed "Don Juan" of the western Japan ...

The building housing the Osaka High Court is seen in this file photo. (Mainichi/Kazuhisa Soneda) OSAKA -- The Osaka High Court on March 23 upheld a lower court ruling that acquitted Saki Sudo of ...

TOKYO -- Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's gamble on a snap election has paid off with a decisive win for the nation's first female leader. Takaichi's Liberal Democratic Party-led coalition has ...

Cowen will lead the feature revolving around a woman on the run with her infant. By Aaron Couch Film Editor “Desperate and on the run with her infant son, a young ...

Though China and Japan are experienced in dealing with diplomatic crises, relations between the two neighbours appear to have reached a new low. And this time, their conflict may not be easily ...

A powerful earthquake struck off northern Japan late Monday local time, triggering a tsunami of up to 28 inches in Pacific coast communities, the Japanese Meteorological Agency said. The agency ...

Global bond funds have for decades been attracted — and repeatedly burned — by a trade known in Japan as the ‘widow-maker.’ The idea is simple: borrow and sell Japanese government bonds in expectation ...

Section 1. Background. On July 22, 2025, I announced a framework agreement between the United States and Japan (Agreement), which lays the foundation for a new era of United States-Japan trade ...

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION IWAKUNI, Japan — Twice as many venomous spiders were exterminated this spring on this base in western Japan compared with the same three months last year, according to ...

Only seven years into her marriage did Yuki Niimi first touch her husband -- at a morgue where she collected his body after he was executed, and kissed him in a coffin. Before that a glass screen had ...