Police in Tokyo have arrested a 32-year-old man, whose address and occupation are unknown, after he attacked a woman in her 50s with a hammer in the office of the company where he used to work.

A 69-year-old woman arrested for a 1999 murder in Nagoya told investigators that she had long feared being caught and felt depressed each year as the anniversary of the killing approached, police said ...

A 71-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to killing her 102-year-old mother at their home in Kunitachi City, Tokyo, in July last year. During the opening session of her trial on Wednesday, Yoko Komine ...

A 24-year-old female office worker was attacked and had her backpack stolen on the sidewalk in front of a public housing complex in Izumi City, Osaka Prefecture, police said Sunday. The incident ...

A version of this scene repeated itself all day in Kyoto last month as 300 wrestlers went at it in bout after bout. This was ...

The world of sumo could be rocked this month if Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi presents a trophy in the ring, where women have traditionally been banned. AFP looks at the ancient sport, at previous ...

South Korean prosecutors have indicted a Japanese woman without arrest for allegedly forcibly kissing a member of BTS, widely regarded as the world's most famous K-pop group, at an event in Seoul in ...

A woman in her 40s was stabbed by a man in Tokyo's Akasaka district on Sunday, police said, adding that the suspected attacker fled the scene. Around 10:25 a.m., police received an emergency call ...

Japan's infrastructure ministry has decided to draft guidelines on the appropriate ratio of female and male toilets in public facilities by the end of this fiscal year, aiming to shorten waiting times ...