Since last summer, Bookstart Japan, a nonprofit group that promotes activities to give picture books to parents and children ...

In Japan's Tochigi Women's Prison, an 81-year-old inmate, Akiyo, has found an unexpected sense of stability behind bars. Serving her second sentence for theft, Akiyo's story sheds light on the ...

Novelist Asako Yuzuki took inspiration from Kijima’s case to create a fictional narrative for her novel Butter. It’s a story ...

Julie Kim has been running Takeda’s US operations since 2022 and will assume the role of CEO in June next year, subject to shareholder approval.

Japan's Fuji Media said on Monday its chairman and the head of its TV unit would step down immediately amidst a probe into ...

Japanese media are still failing to report sexual assault cases properly, a key figure in the country's nascent #MeToo ...

Public mea culpas are a corporate ritual in Japan. For Fuji TV, the resignations and public apologies of two bosses didn’t ...

Fuji TV chairman Shuji Kano and president Koichi Minato stepped down to take responsibility for an alleged sexual assault by a TV host at a 2023 dinner that the Japanese network is alleged to helped ...

Masahiro Nakai, a former leader of Japan's once-hugely popular boy band SMAP, reached a costly settlement with a woman over an alleged sex assault.

Top brass at Japanese network giant Fuji Television and its parent company have stepped down following allegations involving ...