When Kaneko Miyuki reported her sexual assault as a seven-year-old in Japan, she remembers the police laughing at her. “I was already confused and scared,” she said. “They wouldn’t take me seriously ...

For decades, Japanese law said children as young as 13 were old enough to consent to sexual activities. The country also only convicted cases of rape that proved the victim tried to fight back. These ...

Rap itself is still “a minor musical genre in Japan,” Tsujimoto admitted. “But Japanese people love animation — not only children, but adults as well — so the fact that the film is an anime lowers ...

TOKYO — Japan changed its definition of rape and raised the age of consent to 16, from 13, on Friday, bringing the country’s sex crimes laws closer in line with those in the United States and Europe.

A Tokyo court Wednesday awarded 3.3 million yen ($30,000) in damages to journalist Shiori Ito, who accused a former TV reporter of rape in one of the most high-profile cases of the #MeToo movement in ...

TOKYO — It was a spring Friday night when one of Japan’s best-known television journalists invited Shiori Ito out for a drink. Her internship at a news service in Tokyo was ending, and she had ...

Chika Takai moved from Tokyo to Atlanta as a student, later becoming a dancer and DJ for the Atlanta Hawks. When Megan Thee Stallion’s viral 2024 hit “Mamushi” was released, listeners were surprised ...

Top Japanese officials on Tuesday denounced the suspected rape of a 14-year-old girl by a U.S. Marine on the southern island of Okinawa, an episode with echoes of a 1995 case that jolted the ...

Rap itself is still “a minor musical genre in Japan,” Tsujimoto admitted. “But Japanese people love animation — not only children, but adults as well — so the fact that the film is an anime lowers ...