When Japanese women are physically or sexually abused by their partners, they tend to keep quiet and refrain from reporting the violence to the police. But, in Europe, women who go through the same demeaning experience are more inclined to let the authorities know, according ...
A Utah man killed his wife aboard an Alaska cruise and told an acquaintance who later walked into the blood-splattered cabin that he did it because she would not stop laughing at him, the FBI said in documents released Thursday. Kenneth Manzanares was found in ...
Japan’s shelters for neglected children are known for their suffocating discipline, but no one has come up with a good way to reform them in the past 70 years.
Ray Tanaka's high-pitched giggle is infectious. Yet the 51-year-old bears visible signs of less humorous times. Scars peaking through tightly cropped hair are telltale signs of severe beatings at the hands of a former partner who had transitioned to male. While Tanaka's raggedy goatee is ...
The police set new records for issuing stalking and domestic violence warnings last year as more people came forward.
About 6,000 people took part in angry protests in Paris on Sunday over the death of a Chinese man shot and killed when police responded to a call at his apartment last month, police said. The rally was organized by several Chinese associations in France, ...
Satoru Tanaka tentatively pulls from his briefcase a well-thumbed sheet of plain paper, onto which has been sketched three smiling faces along with a simple but astute message: "Daddy's promise," it begins. "Always smile, and if you feel the urge to fight, take a ...
Salimata was always told she should be proud to come from a family of wife beaters. "You're the daughter of a woman whose husband broke her hands. Your grandmother's legs were fractured by her husband. You must be loved," Salimata said, citing her mother's words. The ...
A man who lived in a rural home with his romantic partner, her young son, her mother and her sister was arrested on murder charges after all four were found shot to death, authorities said Wednesday. Authorities who broke through the door to discover the ...
Each of the 47 prefectures is expected to have a support center where rape and sexual assault victims can get medical treatment and counseling, due largely to new central government subsidies, a Kyodo News survey has shown. Eleven prefectures lacking such facilities — Aomori, Iwate, ...
Dozens of Russian activists braved snow Sunday to protest a law signed by President Vladimir Putin that has softened penalties for those who commit domestic violence. Some 80 people, including students and professionals working with domestic violence victims, gathered in a Moscow park for the ...
Alexandra Glebova knows only too well the trauma of domestic violence in Russia after suffering years of physical and psychological abuse at the hands of her father. "He would always hit me on the head," Glebova, 26, said. "Sometimes he hit me so hard I bounced ...
