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On Monday, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe lifted Tokyo's state of emergency after the rate of new coronavirus infections and deaths slowed. The state of emergency, effectively a soft lockdown, ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested a 25-year-old resident of the city’s Nakano Ward on charges of fraud. The woman is described as working in the fuzoku industry, a broad term for the ...

Haywood, a Canadian model who was 20 when the events of this book occurred, reassured herself and her husband, Matt, that working as a Tokyo hostess in an upscale Roppongi bar was more akin to being a ...

T O K Y O, April 6 -- Nine months after a young British woman disappeared mysteriously in Japan, police today said they had formally arrested a suspected serial rapist for causing her death. "We ...

LONDON, April 25 (Reuters) - Tokyo prosecutors will appeal against this week's acquittal of the man accused of murdering British bar hostess Lucie Blackman almost seven years ago, her mother said on ...