DHC Corp. deleted racist comments by its chairman against ethnic Koreans in Japan from the company’s official website on the evening of May 31. The move comes after some municipalities informed ...

Rights and Brands Japan Co., which manages the merchandising rights of Moomin characters, said it took the step after criticism erupted online over DHC's marketing of Moomin-themed products.

In 2016, in a message on the DHC website, he described Koreans in Japan as “pseudo-Japanese” and suggested they return to South Korea. Discrimination against Koreans in Japan goes back decades ...

Japan on Thursday marked one year since a fatal collision at Tokyo's Haneda airport between a Japan Airlines jetliner landing on a runway and a coast guard plane that erroneously entered the runway.