The transition from Heisei to Reiwa came at a relatively peaceful time, with the nation's crime rate falling to a postwar low in 2018, an annual white paper released Friday by the Justice Ministry has shown. But the paper also said the 30-year Heisei Era ...

The capital once again led its global peers, but one of the city’s most famous restaurants is no longer listed in the prestigious guidebook.

The 12 divorced parents want ¥12 million in damages for allegedly being denied the right to raise their children. They also want Japan to create a joint custody system.

Justice Minister Masako Mori has pledged to prioritize the protection of human rights and support services for victims of crime in her new role. The lawyer-turned-lawmaker with 25 years of experience in the legal field said protecting the rights of children, in particular, would be ...

The immigration service had issued just 895 working permits as of early November under the new visa system for skilled blue-collar foreign workers, a far lower number than had originally been forecast for this time, agency officials said Wednesday. The program, which was introduced in ...

The agency will ban firms from taking in new trainees if they are found to have violated the program’s conditions and their trainees have gone missing.

The government on Friday approved granting pardons to roughly 550,000 petty criminals in light of Emperor Naruhito's enthronement ceremony next Tuesday. The Justice Ministry said the pardons, the first since 1993, will be granted on the premise that the emperor's enthronement is "an opportunity for ...

“I want young people today to have bold curiosity,” he said.

Typhoon Hagibis, which the U.S. military’s forecasting agency has put on par with a Category 5 hurricane, could make a direct pass over the Kanto region this weekend.