Oregon State Representative Mari Watanabe was sworn into office at Portland’s Japanese Garden on Sunday – making history as ...

Weekly magazine Shukan Bunshun has alleged that Fuji TV has long exploited its female announcers to entertain stars such as ...

Three individuals were arrested on Jan. 16 for allegedly defrauding a Tokyo woman in her 70s of over 30 million yen (approx.

Masahiro Nakai, one of Japan's biggest boy band stars and a celebrity television host, announced his retirement on Thursday ...

A Japanese woman has pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court here to a charge of concealing the birth of a baby girl by ...

Mari Watanabe became the newest member of the Oregon Legislature on Jan. 19—and also the state’s first-ever Japanese American ...

Japanese television presenter Masahiro Nakai, who is currently embroiled in a sexual assault scandal, announced on Thursday that he was retiring from the entertainment industry. At such a critical ...

A Chinese court deemed the death penalty as appropriate in view of the 'extremely heinous' nature of the crime, which resulted in the death of a bus attendant.

Not so for 80-year-old Naoko Nishimoto of Nagasaki, whose sole choice of transportation for 25 years was a Mazda RX-7. A ...

A Japanese woman pleaded not guilty in the Magistrate’s Court here today to a charge of concealing the birth of a baby girl by dumping the infant in ...

Former star of J-pop band SMAP Masahiro Nakai resigned after several damning reports and suspicions that broadcasting giant ...

Japanese media say a sociology student attacked her classmates with a hammer during class after voicing frustration at being ...