Across the globe in 2024, Reuters photographers took hundreds of thousands of images of our changing world - its daily life, ...

Women-only washrooms will soon be installed on shinkansen bullet trains running in west and central Japan to meet passenger ...

TOKYO -- People staged gatherings across Japan on Dec. 13 to decry discrimination against women in the wake of a writer's ...

Sake brewer Mie Takahashi prepares steamed rice with koji mold for sake making in a temperature-controlled room at her Koten ...

Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Sake brewer Mie Takahashi stirs mixture of steamed rice with koji ...

and how Nelson's family now plan to continue to support the woman they maintain is not a criminal. Her defence team told Nelson's trial in a Japanese court last week the 58-year-old had travelled ...

Japanese comedian Naomi Watanabe was among the 100 "influential and inspiring women" around the world selected for the BBC's annual list on Tuesday. Also selected was Yumi Suzuki, one of the ...

An anonymous 17-year-old teen will be prosecuted by the absurd legal system of Japan for taking the life of a 31-year-old pedestrian with the former’s suicide attempt. The high school teen from ...

A woman in her 80s died after being found lying on the street following a hit-and-run incident in Kobe on Saturday. According to police, a 66-year-old woman called 110 at around 7:45 p.m. and said the ...

Only USA's Amber Glenn stands in the way of Japan's podium sweep in women's singles at the 5-8 December Final in France. Can the formidable Japanese line-up be stopped? Hardly a spoiler alert but odds ...

In the past couple of years the Texas National Guard and state authorities have placed over 100 miles of razor wire at some of the most critical migrant crossing points along the southern border.