“Conscience is the only voice that protects the life of an innocent man,” he wrote in a journal entry in 1981, when he was ...

Iwao Hakamada spent an un­precedented five decades awaiting execution. Each day he woke up unsure whether it would be his last.

There have been numerous powerful gods in anime. These beings stand above the rest as the strongest of them all.

“When I go to sleep in a soundless solitary cell every night, I sometimes cannot help cursing God ... only the fifth death row inmate to be acquitted in a retrial in postwar Japan, where ...

Numerous comments on the Holocaust by the renowned Indian leader who favored nonviolence have been misunderstood, say experts ...

Her death reduces Japan’s rapidly dwindling imperial family to 16 people, and only 4 men, as the country faces questions ...

Princess Yuriko became the sister-in-law of Japan's World War II-era Emperor Hirohito when she married his brother Prince ...

Princess Yuriko, the oldest member of the Japanese Imperial Family, passed away on Friday, November 15 at age 101.

Princess Yuriko of Japan, the Imperial Family’s eldest member, died at 101 years old on Nov. 15 at a Tokyo hospital. Her ...