No one was arguably more surprised by Shigeru Ishiba being named Japan’s prime minister than the head of the nation’s central ...

Iwao Hakamada was wrongfully convicted for crimes committed nearly 60 years ago A Japanese man said to have ... "When I heard that, I was so moved and happy, I couldn't stop crying," she told ...

Ito’s mother was a full-time homemaker, and her father a “salaryman ... Japanese yen declining recently. “You can think that married couples must live together, which means I can’t be happy.

Japanese court finds 88-year-old man not guilty in retrial for murder after decades on death row, NHK says TOKYO -- Japanese court finds 88-year-old man not guilty in retrial for murder after ...

Mr Hakamada’s acquittal by the Shizuoka district court makes him the fifth death-row convict to be found not guilty in a retrial in post-war Japan. Presiding judge Koshi Kunii said that the ...

Redemption by Julien Blondel and Shonen is picked up for an English translated manga series in Yen Press' December 2024 ...

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“Tokyo Cowboy” is his first feature film. He earned the Emerging Director Award from at the St. Louis International Film ...

Kyoto, Japan in the spring. Experts say the best time to visit Japan is during the cherry blossom season from late March to mid-May. In Japan, fall foliage stretches late into the year ...

TOYKO — A Japanese man said to have spent the world ... Hideko Hakamata told a news conference afterwards that she was “so moved and happy” with the verdict “I could not stop crying.” ...

TOKYO, Sept 26 (Reuters) - A Japanese man said to have spent the ... "When I heard that, I was so moved and happy, I couldn't stop crying," she told a televised briefing. Hakamada spent 45 years ...