James Oaten

A Perth grandmother alleging a romance scammer tricked her into trafficking drugs to Japan tells her criminal trial she did not suspect she was being tricked because she was never asked for money.

A Perth grandmother and Indigenous community leader tells a Japanese court she was "deceived" after she was found with almost 2 kilograms of methamphetamine in her luggage at Narita airport, near Tokyo.

Her daughters say she was lonely and vulnerable. Now Perth grandmother Donna Nelson is about to stand trial in Japan on drug smuggling charges her children believe arose out of a romance scam.

The Sea Shepherd and Greenpeace co-founder has been detained since July, with supporters worried a move to extradite him to Japan would see him live the rest of his life in prison.

Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba's Liberal Democratic Party has ruled for almost all of Japan's postwar period. But it lost its parliamentary majority at Sunday's national election. Could smaller parties be key for Japan's future government?

Japan's next prime minister will be maverick regional politician Shigeru Ishiba, after the ruling Liberal Democratic Party elected him its new leader following the news Prime Minister Fumio Kishida would step down.

After a university student was bombarded with doctored, sexually explicit images of herself, the abusive comments started. So did a plan to bring down the perpetrators of what one expert describes as a problem so rife in South Korea it is "national disaster".

Dying a lonely death is an increasing problem in Japan, and it's not just due to its aging population, with a lack of community among the factors isolating people.

Pacific leaders are ramping up pressure on France over tensions in New Caledonia, pressing Paris to allow a "high-level" Pacific delegation to visit the troubled territory before a critical regional meeting next month.

Within a year of landing her first full-time teaching job, Oh Jae Geun’s daughter took her own life after overzealous parents ruthlessly scrutinised her performance and threatened to make criminal complaints to the police.