the first of its kind in Japan, opened on Nagashima island in the Seto Inland Sea in 1930. The prison had eight solitary cells, each measuring four-and-a-half “tatami” mats, or about 7.4 ...

It came from a Swiss International Red Cross agent, long resident in Japan: “Camp on large island of Shikoku in the north near Inland Sea, on fertile plain between hills covered with pines ...

A World War II airman who was taken captive by Japanese forces and died in a prison fire after his plane was shot down has been accounted for, military officials said Wednesday.

Locked up in prison, surrounded by barbed wire.” That's how Morton Grove storyteller Anne Shimojima described her parents’ ...

Now, in a first for Japan, someone has been handed a prison sentence for selling modded Nintendo Switch consoles, which will likely set a new precedent for future cases in the country. According ...