People whose lives were upended by the 1995 deadly nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo cult marked the 31st anniversary on Friday, with their pain still unhealed despite ...

An 80-year-old man was found stabbed to death in his apartment in Osaka on Wednesday. According to police, the manager of the apartment building in Higashiyodogawa Ward called 119 at around 12:15 p.m.

Osaka prefectural police say that a 40-year-old man wanted in connection with the murder of a 78-year-old woman in January has left Japan. Police said they plan to put the man on an international ...

A Japanese defendant was sentenced to life in prison Monday for the murders of an American man, his wife and their daughter in Saitama Prefecture on Christmas Day in 2022. The Saitama District Court ...

Police arrested seven men including yakuza gangsters Saturday on suspicion of stealing suitcases containing about 420 million yen in cash in Tokyo's Ueno district in a January robbery. Jinryu Kano, a ...

Police in Sapporo are looking for a man who attempted to sexually assault a girl in her early teens as she walked along a sidewalk in Kiyota Ward on Sunday. The incident occurred at around 7:30 p.m., ...

Police in Osaka have arrested a 47-year-old police sergeant on suspicion of attempted voyeurism after he was caught trying to film up a junior high school girl's skirt. According to police, Kohei Goto ...

Police in Osaka have arrested a 52-year-old unemployed man for threatening a woman with a knife and attempting to rob her in the parking area of a shopping mall. Police said the man, Osamu Tanaka, has ...

High school graduation is a really special time in one’s life. We can only imagine the whirlwind of emotions that happens when you go through the sheer happiness of achieving this milestone, only to ...

Police in Toyama City have arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of dangerous driving resulting in the death of a 38-year-old woman and her 14-year-old son. Police said Ryo Sugibayashi is accused of ...

Police in Funabashi, Chiba Prefecture, have arrested a 29-year-old man on suspicion of fatally assaulting a man with whom he had been drinking, on a street on Thursday morning. According to police, ...

Two men robbed a mobile phone store in Shinjuku, Tokyo, on Saturday night, getting away with 1.7 million yen in cash and dozens of mobile phones. The incident occurred shortly before 10 p.m., TBS ...