Law & Crime

Japan to Schools: Don’t Dock Attendance for Groping Victims

Japan's government took steps this week to make it easier for school-age women to report groping assaults.

Mobile billboards, many advertising nightlife businesses, loudly circle the streets of Tokyo. Now the government is cracking down.

A former JET Program participant who suffered sexual assault has won a civil lawsuit against Nagasaki Prefecture.

A shocking case of stalking and murder in Fukuoka Prefecture raises questions about whether Japan's stalking laws need more teeth.

Why some license plates in Japan are named after a delicious food (and no, it doesn't mean your car's been boiled in oil).

A rare criminal incident has marred Coming of Age Day for at least seven victims whose expensive clothes were ruined by an unknown assailant.

0.86 centimeters. That's all it took for a man in Osaka to be arrested for a pair of scissors a cop found in his car.

Former Prime Minister and Tokyo Olympics Games chief Mori Yoshiro may be swept up into the event's ongoing bribery scandal.

A Vietnamese woman is appealing her conviction in Japan for "hiding" the bodies of her stillborn twins - and she has a lot of support.