Human Rights Watch (headquartered in New York City; founded in 1978) is an international human rights organization that ...

NPR's Adrian Ma speaks with Richard Samuels, professor of Political Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, about Japan's effort to form a new centralized intelligence agency.

British prosecutors referred to Su Jiangbo only as “Mr. X” when they announced an asset freeze in March. OCCRP discovered his ...

F or more than a decade, Matsubara Tanishi, a Japanese comedian, has lived in houses where others met gruesome ends. One ...

Anastasiya Minkova collapsed in shock when she arrived home from a trip last September to find that her husband had moved out ...

Columnist Justice B. Hill reflects on a Cleveland friend trying to help an American who remains detained in Japan’s justice ...

This newsletter reports on U.S. legal matters from January to June 2026 that are relevant to Japanese companies. In this ...

The firm, one of Japan's "Big Four," has had an office in New York since 2010, but this is its first U.S. expansion to the West Coast. The timing coincides with Japan's agreement to invest $550 ...

Alison is a senior news reporter covering US politics and legal news. Judge Emmet Sullivan ruled last week the Trump administration has until Thursday to release and unredact information in the ...

National team legend Keisuke Honda has offered himself as Japan’s next head coach. The former Japan forward, now one of the country’s most well-liked World Cup commentators, made his pitch this week.

Publicly released U.S. Navy court records reviewed by The Diplomat show that a drug distribution case aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan may have extended beyond the ship and into off-base ...

TOKYO, July 1 (Reuters) - Japanese business mood climbed to an eight-year ⁠high ⁠and corporate inflation expectations rose to record ⁠levels, a quarterly survey showed, underlining the economy's ...