Police in Tokyo have arrested a 66-year-old man on suspicion of breaking and entering and stealing a woman’s underwear, clothes and other items from her house while she was out. Police said Shigeo ...

Editor: This is the third installment of a three-part feature. Read Part 1 here and Part 2 here. In late January, the Tendai Religious Office in Otsu received a petition for a disciplinary hearing ...

Police in Kama, Fukuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 51-year-old man on suspicion of dangerous driving resulting in death and injury after he hit an elderly woman and her husband. According to police, ...

Police in Otaru, Hokkaido, have arrested a 63-year-old man on suspicion of theft after he allegedly stole a box of chocolates worth 1,069 yen from a confectionery store. Police said the incident ...

Two Japanese gang members suspected of killing a Japanese man and dismembering his body in central Thailand last month have fled to a neighboring country, Thai police said Friday, with a police source ...

Thai police have obtained arrest warrants for two Japanese gang members on suspicion of murdering a Japanese man and dismembering his body, with the body parts found in a Bangkok suburb, local media ...

A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vest near a van carrying Japanese auto workers, who narrowly escaped the ...

Police in Kishiwada City, Osaka Prefecture, have arrested three employees at a care facility for people with intellectual disabilities, on suspicion of abusing a male resident in his 50s in February.

Editor: This is the first installment of a three-part feature. A Japanese Buddhist nun has stepped forward to allege that she was brainwashed and sexually violated by the chief priest of a major ...

A 25-year-old Japanese woman was given a nine-year prison sentence on Monday for defrauding three men out of a total of 155 million yen on a dating app and selling a manual on how to scam men out of ...

A pure gold bowl priced at around 10 million yen that was stolen from a Tokyo department store last week was confiscated on ...