On Wednesday, in Japan’s Diet, the House of Representatives ... The Diet should listen to survivors like Junji Shimada and move quickly to prevent future abuses.

Four survivors of Japan’s “hostage justice” filed a lawsuit at the Tokyo District Court on March 24, contending that the Code of Criminal Procedure provisions allowing prolonged pretrial ...

More than 100,000 people were killed in a single night 80 years ago on Monday in the US firebombing of the Japanese capital of Tokyo. The attack, made with conventional bombs, destroyed downtown ...

Residents scrambled desperately through collapsed buildings Sunday searching for survivors as aftershocks rattled the devastated city of Mandalay, two days after a massive earthquake killed more than ...

Elderly survivors are making a last-ditch effort to tell their stories ... strongholds in the Pacific that allowed B-29 Superfortress bombers to easily hit Japan's main islands. There was growing ...

SHANGHAI—Japan is expected to be a prime destination for Chinese tourists during the nation’s seven-day Golden Week due to increased flights and reduced airfares. The Pudong International ...

Japan is fighting a forest fire that has damaged dozens of homes and forced hundreds of residents to evacuate in a northeastern coastal city. The fire has burned about 2,100 hectares (5,190 acres ...

Rieko Tamaki, 90, a resident of Naha, still remembers the final moments of her then 14-year-old brother's life during the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. "He died in agony, crying out, ‘Give me water.

Elderly survivors are making a last-ditch effort to tell their stories ... strongholds in the Pacific that allowed B-29 Superfortress bombers to easily hit Japan's main islands. There was growing ...

A resident of a northeastern Japanese community hit by a devastating wildfire has been reunited with his cat after being forced to evacuate without it. Konishi Tomuji, the 75-year-old resident of ...