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Iwao Hakamada, Japan's longest serving death row inmate, has insisted for 40 years that he is innocent of the four murders he was convicted of. The evidence was suspect, he says, and his confession was coerced.
Violent clashes with animal rights groups and fewer whale sightings forced Japan's whaling fleet to head home from the Antarctic with only 55 percent of its 985-whale hunting target, the government said Monday.
Japan extended for six months Friday the economic sanctions imposed on North Korea for conducting its first test of a nuclear weapon in 2006.
Political turmoil in Tibet has forced a 75-year-old Japanese adventurer to change the route of his bid next month to become the oldest man to scale Mount Everest, his office said Monday.
Japan's foreign minister urged the Group of Eight industrialized nations to step up assistance to Africa and other impoverished regions as talks on development aid opened Saturday amid a worldwide economic downturn.
Kaku Yamanaka, Japan's oldest person, has died of old age in central Japan, officials said Saturday. She was 113.
Several Japanese movie theaters canceled showings of a documentary about a controversial war shrine after at least one theater received threats, a cinema official said Monday.
Two years ago, Yuichiro Miura lost his title of oldest man to climb Mount Everest to someone just three days older. Now, the 75-year-old wants it back.
The Japanese coast guard said Friday that anti-whaling activists threw rotten butter and other objects at a Japanese whale-processing ship, the latest high seas clash over the country's annual hunt.
Entertainment giant Walt Disney Co. will team up with several Japanese companies to produce animation for television in Japan, a leading market, a Disney official said Thursday.
Japan's top automaker Toyota said Wednesday it has been asked to invest in a project to build the first "made in Japan" passenger aircraft in three decades.
Japanese electronics maker Pioneer Corp. is reviewing its plasma display business, a company official said Tuesday, while Japanese media reports said the company plans to stop producing them.
Japan's defense minister warned Friday that further crimes by American troops here could shake the two countries' alliance. The foreign minister said Tokyo will install security cameras around U.S. bases and take other steps to deter crime.
A Japanese navy destroyer equipped with advanced radar plowed into a fishing boat off the Pacific coast Tuesday, splitting the boat in two and plunging two fishermen into the chilly waters. The men remained missing.
U.S. military authorities held preliminary hearings Friday to determine whether four Marines who had been charged with raping a Japanese woman last year should be court-martialed.
The U.S. military in Japan has ordered a review of its anti-sexual assault guidelines and could impose new curfews or other restrictions following a Marine's arrest on suspicion of rape, the top commander said Thursday.
The U.S. ambassador visited Okinawa on Wednesday to quell rising anger over the arrest of an American Marine on suspicion of raping a 14-year-old schoolgirl — the type of crime that sparked massive protests against the U.S. military in the 1990s.
A U.S. Marine accused of raping a 14-year-old girl in southern Japan was arrested Monday, police said, stirring memories of a rape of a Japanese girl by U.S. troops over a decade ago.
Investigators found insecticide on the outside of six bags of Chinese-made dumplings in Japan after separate dumplings made by the same company sickened 10 people there, police said Sunday.
Profits fell at Japanese megabanks Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group and Mizuho Financial Group in the nine months through December because of exposure to the U.S. subprime mortgage crisis.
An 89-year-old woman died after an ambulance crew spent two hours trying 30 hospitals before finding one that would accept her for treatment, Japanese officials said Friday.
The Education Ministry will restore textbook references suggesting that Japan's wartime military could have played a role in forcing Okinawans to commit mass suicides during the closing days of World War II, officials said Wednesday.
Japanese Prime Minister Yasuo Fukuda said Sunday his ruling bloc will submit legislation providing aid to about 1,000 people exposed to hepatitis C through defective blood-clotting products sold by pharmaceutical companies.
A court in central Japan ordered the government Friday to pay compensation to a woman who argued that her husband died from overwork at Toyota Motor Corp., Japan's largest automaker, officials said.
More than 16,000 Japanese workers at U.S. military bases in Japan went on strike Wednesday, protesting Tokyo's plan to cut their benefits as it tightens its budget supporting the 50,000 U.S. troops here.
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