The ruling Democratic Party of Japan has refused to support legislation that would outlaw the possession of child pornography on the grounds that it would infringe individuals’ freedom of expression – although there has been a stepped-up police...

Twenty-seven years ago, Kazuyoshi Miura and his wife were shot in a Los Angeles car park. He was shot in the leg. She was shot in the head. Miura accompanied his injured wife back to Japan where she died a year later from her injuries. Naturally, the...