Japan has proposed raising the age of consent from 13 to 16 as part of an overhaul of sex crime legislation after a string of controversial rape acquittals. The Japanese Justice Ministry’s proposal ...

The World Baseball Classic continued on Friday morning, as Shohei Ohtani and Japan handled the Republic of Korea. Korea took a 3-0 lead in the third inning, but it was all Japan thereafter, as the ...

Exclusions_France 8 (E. Bjorch 1, U. Crousillat 1, R. Marion Vernoux 1, M. Marzouki 1, E. Nardon 1, P. Vanpeperstraete 1, E. Khasz 2); Japan 7 (S. Adachi 1, K. Araki ...

The U.S. State Department has warned Americans traveling to Japan to watch their surroundings after more than a dozen people ...

TOKYO — Japan’s parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit that had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world’s lowest, amid calls for ...

Thirteen Japanese nationals suspected of being a part of a fraud scheme in Cambodia have been detained by local investigators. The Japanese Embassy in the country says the investigators held the ...