A veteran freelance journalist said Wednesday the Japanese government has ordered him to surrender his passport as he prepared to leave for Yemen. The move came amid debate in Japan about whether ...

Myanmar protestors in Yangon demonstrate against the coup. Dozens of reporters have been detained under the junta’s crackdown – Copyright AFP STR A Japanese ...

TOKYO (AP) – A veteran Japanese war correspondent was shot and killed while covering Syria’s civil war, her family and the government said Tuesday. Mika Yamamoto worked for The Japan Press, an ...

TOKYO (AP) — Worries are growing about the whereabouts of a freelance Japanese journalist, last heard from one month ago in war-torn Syria, where reporting assignments have become among the most ...

A Japanese national, who had been detained in Iran since January, has been released on bail, Tokyo confirmed on Tuesday. Chief Cabinet Secretary Minoru Kihara announced that the release was verified ...

Japanese journalist Toshihiro Yoshida, a long-time observer and critic of Japan's military expansion and deepening military integration with the United States, warned Sunday that the Japan-U.S.

The decision came amid debate in Japan about whether journalists should be prevented from going to war zones after the capture and release of a Japanese reporter in Syria last year. Kosuke Tsuneoka, ...