The rooms are filled with elderly residents, their hands wrinkled and backs bent. They shuffle slowly down the corridors, some using walkers. Workers help them bathe, eat, walk and take their ...

WASHINGTON – A Navy lieutenant held for 507 days in a Japanese jail over a fatal car crash while deployed to the largest overseas US naval base is headed back to America after Tokyo agreed to transfer ...

TOKYO (AP) — Japan's Justice Ministry disclosed Friday that more than 20 prison guards had repeatedly pushed, slapped and used other forms of physical violence against a group of inmates at a prison ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — For Ridge Alkonis, a U.S.

For Ridge Alkonis, a U.S. Navy lieutenant living in Japan, a springtime trip with his wife and three children to Mount Fuji was intended as fun and leisurely family time before an expected deployment.

CAMP H.M. SMITH, Hawaii — Supporters of a Navy officer serving three years in a Japanese prison gathered outside U.S. Indo-Pacific Command’s front gate on Wednesday to protest what they believe is an ...

A Dana Point couple, whose son, Navy Lt. Ridge Alkonis, is serving prison time in Japan following a car crash, hopes a visit by the Japanese Prime Minister this week with President Joe Biden could ...

Family members of an American naval officer now in a Japanese prison after a car crash are doing all they can think of in hopes of getting President Joe Biden involved in lobbying for Lt. Ridge ...

Japanese parliament passed legislation Monday that would make online insults punishable by up to one year in jail. The move comes after a popular Japanese reality TV star died by suicide. The bill ...

Poetry in Japan is considered too pleasant an art to be left exclusively to poets. Japanese of all backgrounds like to compose spare, highly stylized verses* whose aim is to evoke a moment or a mood, ...

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