A committee for the inquest of prosecution has rejected a journalist's appeal of a 2016 decision not to indict former television reporter Noriyuki Yamaguchi, whom she accused of raping her. The decision by the Tokyo Sixth Committee for the Public Inquest of Prosecution, dated Thursday, ...
Cases of reported child abuse rise to a record high in the first six months of 2017 amid heightened public awareness.
Alas, Japan's extremists have still not given up trying to find honor in the nation's 1945 wartime defeat and and the ideology that led to it.
Chinese real estate tycoon Guo Wengui, one of the ruling Communist Party's most wanted exiles, has applied for political asylum in the United States, his lawyer said, in a move that could keep him out of Beijing's grasp for at least several more years. Guo's ...
Under the new system, disciplinary records of those who have committed obscene acts against children will be shared nationwide.
In escalating efforts to repatriate New York-based billionaire Guo Wengui, one of the ruling Communist Party's most wanted exiles, Chinese police have begun investigating a new allegation: rape. A second Interpol arrest notice for Guo, 50 — who has been releasing what he calls official ...
A Utah man charged with murder after prosecutors say he filmed a teenage girl killing herself using a rope he bought for her went on Wednesday before a judge who will decide if he will be tried on a murder charge. Prosecutors played cellphone video ...
A U.S. couple wrongly jailed for 21 years on charges of sexually assaulting children as part of a satanic cult, received $3.4 million Wednesday from the state of Texas, months after prosecutors acknowledged their innocence. Operators of a day care facility, Dan and Fran Keller ...
A third woman came forward Tuesday to accuse Roman Polanski of sexual assault when she was a minor, 40 years after he went on the run for raping another girl. The woman, identified only as Robin, told a news conference in Los Angeles she was ...
Pop star Taylor Swift on Friday won an important ruling in the trial stemming from her allegation that she was groped by a Colorado disc jockey, with the judge dismissing the DJ's rival claim accusing the singer of wrongfully getting him fired. The ruling by ...
Modern slavery and human trafficking are more prevalent across Britain than previously thought, the National Crime Agency said Thursday, because more international gangs realize they can make significant sums of money from it. The NCA said there are 300 live police operations into forced labor, ...
A Malaysian man was charged on Thursday with more than 600 counts of raping and sodomizing his teenaged daughter, prompting calls for greater protection for women and girls. The case comes as Malaysia seeks to crack down on child sex offenses, including the establishment of ...
