Japan requires married couples to use the same surname, but there is strong public support for a system allowing them to have ...

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Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba has survived a runoff vote against the opposition but will face turmoil ahead amid ...

Hanako Okada was one of 73 women to win seats at the general election last month, a record number in a Parliament long dominated by men.

Tetsuya Chiba, co-creator of Ashita no Joe and several other major sports franchises, will be the first manga artist to ...

Pacific Overtures,' Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman's 1976 musical about the forcible opening of Japan to foreign trade, is dazzlingly revived by East West Players in one of the best production's of ...

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Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved. Japan’s Malo Tuitama is tackled by France’s François Cros during ...

Tetsuya Chiba, the brilliant mangaka behind Ashita no Joe, is the first ever manga creator to earn Japan's Order of Culture award.

On Nov. 12, 1948, a war crimes tribunal in Japan sentenced former premier Hideki Tojo and six other World War II Japanese ...

Yuichiro Tamaki, the leader of a small opposition party now able to wield outsized political influence, had long puzzled over ...