Appreciate your candor @MikeDashler. Please read comments above @Mar 5 10:33a for a very, general definition of ‘Domestic Violence’. Just exiting quietly (for reasons ‘unstated’) with a witness, ...

Visitors take photos of the main building of the State Guest House, Akasaka Palace lit up in purple, in Tokyo's Minato Ward on Nov. 12, 2023. (Mainichi/Sahomi Nishimoto) TOKYO -- A campaign for the ...

KYOTO – Children who have been physically abused by their parents are more likely to turn to juvenile delinquency than those who have not, a group of researchers, including those from Kyoto University ...

The Gender Equality Bureau is an agency within the Japanese government’s Cabinet Office. As you’d probably expect, one of the issues the bureau is concerned with is domestic violence, and as part of ...

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Last year saw a disturbing upward trend in domestic violence cases in Japan as households struggled with issues like economic insecurity caused by the pandemic. The stress of dealing with the pandemic ...