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Japan’s top court on Friday recognised a transgender woman as the “father” of her 3-year-old daughter conceived using her frozen sperm and born to her female partner after legally transitioning, in the first such ruling.
In the first design change in 20 years, the 10,000 yen, 5,000 yen, and 1,000 yen bills will have bigger face value numbers printed on them than the current versions, so all people, regardless of age and nationality, can recognise them easily.
A US Marine in his 20s in Okinawa prefecture was arrested in May on suspicion of injuring a woman while attempting to rape her, investigative sources said on Friday, while local police withheld the information.
Only 10.4 per cent of the Japanese public want Prime Minister Fumio Kishida to win the ruling Liberal Democratic Party’s leadership race slated for September and continue serving as premier, the latest Kyodo News poll showed on Sunday.
The aid will come on top of government subsidies that Kishida also vowed to retain to cut household utility bills. Rising prices have weighed heavily on consumers despite his emphasis on wealth redistribution via pay hikes.
A Japanese pop band’s video to promote its new song Columbus has been withdrawn, its record company said on Thursday, after coming under fire for imagery that seems to conjure justifications of colonialism and slavery.
Sim Siong Chye, a 55-year-old former counsellor who had been asked by police to appear for questioning after he left Japan, was referred to prosecutors on Thursday for allegedly violating laws related to taking sexual images and the production of child pornography.
Japanese chef Wataru Kakiuchi was fatally stabbed in Vancouver earlier this week, the local Japanese consulate general said on Thursday after being notified of the attack by police.