The law punishes publicly damaging or defacing the national flag, known as "hinomaru". Opponents say the ambiguous law only ...

A popular princess drives support for having a female Japanese Emperor. But the country's first female prime minister opposes ...

Parliament's revision expands the male heir pool through adoption while keeping Princess Aiko barred from the throne, defying ...

Japan’s first female prime minister helped ensure that women will continue to be barred from ascending to the Imperial throne ...

Japan revises its laws to keep its imperial family from running out of heirs to the throne, while avoiding any discussion of allowing female emperors, an idea most Japanese support.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As CBS News senior foreign correspondent Elizabeth Palmer reports, Japan's strict laws on private gun ownership have surprising ...

The latest legal revision makes no mention of female or maternal-line emperors. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at ...

Dec. 12 (UPI) --Recently revised Japanese cannabis and narcotics laws went into effect on Thursday and could land violators in prison for up to seven years. A general concern about rising use of ...

Some respondents said they thought Takaichi wasn’t doing enough to counter inflation. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Kaneko Miyuki reported her sexual assault as a seven-year-old in Japan, she remembers the police laughing at her. “I was ...