A court in Japan sentenced a Marine to seven years in prison on Tuesday after it found him guilty of strangling and attempting to sexually assault a Japanese woman in Okinawa last year, the latest ...

WSJ’s Jason Douglas explains why Sanae Takaichi is likely to hit it off with President Trump. Photo: Kim Kyung-hoon/Reuters TOKYO—Sanae Takaichi was confirmed as Japan’s first female prime minister in ...

About 600 mostly women demonstrators, including a survivor, joined a rally in South Korean capital Seoul demanding justice and compensation for victims of sexual slavery by the Japanese military ...

How Takaichi’s government addresses the implementation gap for existing laws will define whether her historic appointment ...

Japan's first woman premier, and fifth in as many years, leads a minority government and has a bulging in-tray, not least the scheduled arrival of the US leader next week. But in her first remarks in ...

TOKYO (AP) — U.S. strategic bombers joined a fleet of Japanese fighter jets in a joint military exercise meant to demonstrate their military cooperation around Japan’s airspace, defense officials said ...

President Donald Trump spoke to U.S. service members aboard the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier George Washington in Yokosuka, Japan, Tuesday morning to promote his administration's "peace through ...