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Japanese journalist Shiori Ito won a landmark civil case in 2019 against a prominent TV reporter accused of raping her

World

Japan #MeToo survivor says media are failing in wake of Fuji TV scandal

Japanese media are still failing to report sexual assault cases properly, a key figure in the country’s nascent #MeToo movement told AFP in the...

AFPJanuary 28, 2025

Fuji Television has come under fire for its handling of the allegations

World

Japan’s Fuji TV faces heat over sex allegations

Pressure grew Monday on Fuji Television over an alleged sexual assault by a celebrity presenter, with the Japanese broadcaster set to address media as...

AFPJanuary 27, 2025

The Bank of Japan has hiked interest rates to their highest level since 2008

Business

Bank of Japan hikes interest rate to 17-year high, signals more

The Bank of Japan hiked interest rates on Friday to their highest level in 17 years and signalled more were in the pipeline despite...

AFPJanuary 23, 2025

Japan's much-loved 'tonkatsu' pork cutlets come with a mound of freshly shredded cabbage, but a surge in the vegetable's price has prompted some chefs to skimp on servings

Life

Climate change cooks up Japanese ‘cabbage shock’

Shinagawa's Tokyo restaurant Katsukichi offers free cabbage refills alongside its juicy, deep-fried cutlets.

AFPJanuary 23, 2025

Masayoshi Son is the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald Trump's big new AI push

World

Masa Son, Trump’s Japanese buddy with the Midas Touch

Masayoshi Son, the Japanese tycoon helming US President Donald Trump’s big new AI push, is the son of an immigrant pig farmer with a...

AFPJanuary 22, 2025

Teruko Nakazawa said she never wanted to be thanked or rewarded after decades of volunteering as an unpaid parole officer

World

‘Love for humanity’: Low-crime Japan’s unpaid parole officers

Teruko Nakazawa once intervened in a knife fight between an ex-offender and their mother — all in a day’s unpaid work for Japan’s army...

AFPJanuary 22, 2025

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio walks with Indo-Pacific Quad ministers, Japanese Foreign Minister Takeshi Iwaya, Indian Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong at the State Department

World

Rubio starts as top US diplomat meeting Asian partners

New US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met counterparts Tuesday from Japan, India and Australia on his first day in office, in a sign...

AFPJanuary 21, 2025

North Korea regularly condemns the South's joint military exercises, decrying them as rehearsals for invasion

World

North Korea warns of stronger action over South’s drills with US, Japan

North Korea condemned on Friday joint military drills between South Korea, Japan and the United States held this week, threatening to respond by exercising...

AFPJanuary 16, 2025