A group fighting gender-based workplace discrimination submitted a petition to the labor ministry calling for a ban on dress codes that force women to wear high heels at work. The petition bearing 18,856 signatures was presented Monday by Yumi Ishikawa, the leader of the group ...

Hideaki Kumazawa reportedly tells police he believed his son could “harm others” after he found out about last week’s stabbing rampage.

The accident occurred at Shin-Sugita Station on the Kanazawa Seaside Line. Of the 14 passengers hurt, six sustained serious injuries.

The West and Japan have sought to balance human rights concerns with reaping the rewards of economic relations with China.

Images of the man were captured May 24 by security cameras around the crime scene, as well as at nearby train stations.

The city of Shimabara, Nagasaki Prefecture, commemorated Monday the 43 victims of a huge pyroclastic flow from Mount Unzen's Fugen Peak, 28 years after the disaster. Fugen Peak began erupting on Nov. 17, 1990, for the first time in around 200 years. The eruption caused ...

World leaders are failing 1.4 billion girls and women on promises of a fairer future, according to a global index launched at the world's biggest gender equality conference. The research shows the world is way off track to meet a 2030 deadline for achieving gender ...

In its first major asset sale since the United States ratcheted up accusations of the Chinese firm being a vehicle for espionage, a Huawei Technologies Co. Ltd. buyer's filing showed Monday it plans to sell its undersea telecom cable business. Hengtong Optic-Electric Co. Ltd, an ...

The apparent right-hand man of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, who a report last week said may have been purged and sent to a labor and re-education camp, has appeared alongside Kim during a musical performance, state-run media said in a dispatch Monday. The ...

A massive cruise ship lost control in Venice Sunday, crashing into a wharf and sparking a fresh controversy over the damage the mammoth vessels cause to one of the world's most famous cities. Footage posted to social media showed people in the harbor fleeing as ...

The CCP's continued reliance on brute power to keep China's citizens in line could eventually leave it on the ash heap of history.

The "crime" of which Julian Assange stands accused pales next to the wrongdoing he helped to expose. Whistleblowers should never be prosecuted.

One of the first things taught in anthropology classes is that presents exchanged in a given society hardly ever come for free. When someone gives another person something, that always entails some sort of obligation. Acts of giving and receiving are hence highly sensitive ...

Ikō to omotte-ita-n-da kedo, misokonatchatta. (I was going to go, but I missed it.) ...

Yamanashi Prefecture Gov. Kotaro Nagasaki, who was elected for the first time in January, on the 22nd revealed an idea to draw up a plan that includes an outline to work toward connecting the bottom and fifth station on Mount Fuji via a mountain ...

Unseasonably hot conditions gripped wide areas of Japan on Sunday, with the town of Saroma in Hokkaido setting the highest temperature ever recorded in the country for the month of May.

No. 7 seed Kei Nishikori came back from 1-4 and 3-5 down in the final set to beat France's Benoit Paire and set up a Roland Garros quarterfinal clash against defending champion Rafael Nadal on Monday. Nishikori won 6-2, 6-7 (8-10), 6-2, 6-7 (8-10), 7-5 ...

Chiba Jets Funabashi star Yuki Togashi has become a "Million Dollar Man." The diminutive point guard became the first Japanese player to earn an annual salary of over ¥100 million ($923,000), the B. League club announced at a Tokyo news conference on Monday night. Jets president ...

Dominic Thiem has accused Serena Williams of having a "bad personality" as the bizarre row over him being booted out of his own press conference so that Roland Garros organizers could accommodate the American superstar instead took another twist. Austria's Thiem, the fourth seed in ...

Hideki Matsuyama failed in his quest for a first tournament victory in two years when he finished sixth at the Memorial Tournament on Sunday, eight shots behind American winner Patrick Cantlay. Matsuyama, who entered the final round just four shots off the lead, played alongside ...

Olympic marathon trials have always generated major interest among the Japanese public. But the attention will be even greater this year, thanks to the first-ever Marathon Grand Championship. Thirty-one 31 male and 12 female runners who qualified for the event will take the start line ...

Japan coach Jamie Joseph named 42 players Monday that will form the basis of the Brave Blossoms squad for this year's Rugby World Cup. Led by captain Michael Leitch, the squad — which contains just 12 players with previous World Cup experience — will hold ...

David Price picked an excellent time to erase his Boston zero in the Bronx. The left-hander finally won at Yankee Stadium for the first time with the Red Sox, backed by early homers from J.D. Martinez and Xander Bogaerts in an 8-5 victory over New ...

With a small-ball approach, Japan's women's basketball team will try to achieve big things. The Akatsuki Five wrapped up its first games of the year with a two-game sweep of Belgium in Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture, on Sunday, with wins of 91-75 and 84-71. It is certainly ...

The Golden State Warriors relied on a champion's heart to overcome their weary bodies. Klay Thompson scored 25 points before leaving with a hamstring injury, Stephen Curry had 23 and the Warriors ran off the first 18 points of the second half on the way ...

Six is certainly a magic number for U.S. Women's Open champion Jeongeun Lee6. The 23-year-old South Korean won her first major title Sunday, the first $1 million women's winner's check ever handed out by the USGA and her first victory as an LPGA Tour rookie. ...