A group working under the U.N. Human Rights Council has issued a wideranging report about rights in Japan, including discrimination against minorities and unhealthy working conditions.
Outside of the successful G7 summit, the year was not kind to PM Fumio Kishida s unpopular administration. A kickback scandal provided one final headache.
A man who was allegedly sexually abused by Johnny Kitagawa, the late founder of Japan's top male talent agency previously known as Johnny & Associates Inc., has died in a possible suicide, sources familiar with the matter says.