The Latest Breaking News from Japan

The top leaders of Japan, the United States and South Korea plan to hold a meeting in Washington in August, informed sources said.

The government has specified 12 key fields necessary to strengthen national security in defense technology guidelines to be released soon, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

A Chinese researcher arrested on suspicion of leaking research data on a cutting-edge technology to a Chinese company allegedly used his Japanese workplace email to contact the firm on several occasions, The Yomiuri Shimbun has learned.

LOS ANGELES — This year's Ojai Festival began Thursday night with a tribute to Kaija Saariaho, the Finnish composer who died earlier this month. For Ojai, Steven Schick performed an ethereal percussion piece inspired by the moss garden at the Kyoto temple Saiho-ji, which is the greenest place I have…

Touted as one of the favourites, second-seeded India was outplayed by Malaysia, the fourth seed, 5-0 in the semifinals of the Squash World Cup at the Express Avenue Mall in Chennai on Friday. In the final on Saturday, Malaysia take on Egypt, which drubbed Japan 6-0 in the other semifinal.

Lawmakers in Japan have passed major reforms in the country's sex crime legislation. The new laws define non-consensual sex as rape, removing the requirement that the victim had to be forcibly coerced into the act for it to constitute a crime. The legislation also raises the age of consent for…

Japan’s parliament has raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit which had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world’s lowest, amid calls for greater protection of children and women

Japan passed a landmark sex-crime bill on Friday, in a long fought-for bid to make a range of sexual offenses, including rape, photo voyeurism and online child-grooming, more easily punishable.

Japanese aftermarket specialist Tom's has also lowered the suspension and fitted new wheels.