Industrial Heritage Information Center Director Koko Kato welcomed a UNESCO committee's decision to inscribe the Sado gold mines as a World Heritage site.
The bill aims to prevent biological males who have changed their legal gender from committing sexual crimes in female-only spaces like public baths and toilets.
RSF cited political pressure and press clubs in its ranking of press freedom in Japan, prompting skepticism and speculation about its ranking criteria.
Replying to Kishida's condolences, Taiwan president-elect Wiliam Lai wrote: "Let's continue to help each other, hand in hand, and overcome challenges together."
Princess Aiko paid a visit to Ise Jingu to inform the imperial ancestral deity about her university graduation and upcoming role at the Japan Red Cross.
The decision to award the Miss Japan title to Karolina Shiino, a naturalized Japanese citizen born to Ukrainian parents, has received mixed reactions online.
A Japanese women's rights activist believes the book could have helped prevent girls from making premature and uninformed decisions to undergo trans procedures.
"We need concrete action. I urge countries involved with China to place their conscience and humanity over money" — Gulbahar Haitiwaji, former Uyghur detainee.
The Olympic Charter honors human rights. After the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics, will China continue to ignore calls from the international community to halt its human...
“If your younger brother participates in the demonstration, your relatives will be put in prison,” one relative was reportedly told, according to his brother in Japan.
“It would appear that they were trying to squash in its infancy any effort that runs counter to Chinese Communist Party policy, even if it is...
Japan has finally taken action by establishing a Parliamentary group concerned with China’s suppression of human rights in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region.
