Teruko Nakazawa once intervened in a knife fight between an ex-offender and their mother -- all in a day's unpaid work for ...

The Ministry for Environment and Climate Change has launched the National Anti-Litter Campaign, “ Do the Right Thing,” in ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with his Quad counterparts - India's External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar, Japan's ...

A new U.N. standard inspired by Japan's volunteer probation officer system is being developed, government sources said Sunday ...

The increasing number of elderly women in Japanese prisons highlights broader social challenges including poverty and isolation among the aging population CNN ...

The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, ...

The family of a death row inmate who was executed while he was preparing to request a retrial has filed a civil lawsuit ...

Taipei and Tokyo have set 124° east longitude within the inverted triangle zone north of the Yaeyama Islands as a demarcation ...

Palestinians in the southern Gaza city of Khan Younis celebrate after hearing the news of a ceasefire deal with Israel on Wednesday. ABED RAHIM KHATIB/GETTY IMAGES . The internati ...

Asian nations welcomed a cease-fire agreement between Israel and the Palestinian group Hamas, expressing relief while also ...

For two weeks, Yoon had been holed up inside his official residence in Seoul, outside which hundreds of his supporters had ...

The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that the FBI has deleted Chinese PlugX malware from over 4,200 computers in ...