Keisuke Koide, a popular actor with a clean-cut image, has been suspended by his talent agency after admitting to having sex with a minor, forcing major broadcasters to cancel a program starring him and remove him from the cast of an upcoming TV program. “It happened because I, as an ...
A 24-year-old man was arrested Saturday after bringing a 12-cm fruit knife to a meet-and-greet event for an all-girl idol ...
A federal appeals court says members of the U.S. Navy can pursue their lawsuit in a U.S. court alleging radiation ...
The Moritomo Gakuen school group may have padded the number of children with special needs at its kindergarten to fraudulently receive subsidies from Osaka Prefecture, informed sources said Wednesday. The number of such children reported by the group’s Tsukamoto Kindergarten was far above the ...
Takuya Kimura, a former member of the iconic boy band SMAP, caused a pileup in a Tokyo suburb after rear-ending a motorcycle in an accident where no injuries were reported, local police said. At around 4:45 p.m. Tuesday, a car Kimura was driving bumped ...
Overnight raid comes as Osaka school operator with ties to Abe is alleged to have fraudulently received ¥61.8 million.
Two trash collectors allegedly took home about ¥10 million in cash they found at a waste disposal center in Tamura, Fukushima Prefecture, the authorities said Monday. Police said they plan to refer the case to prosecutors on charges of theft. According to the city, ...
Police are investigating a possible attempted murder after a man whose body was aflame rushed into an electronics store in the city of Sakai in Osaka on Monday. The man, in his 40s, suffered burns all over his body but is conscious, the police ...
The personal information of 169 customers who each have over ¥100 million deposited in the Bank of Saga was likely stolen by a former employee and handed to a group of suspected criminals, bank officials said Monday. The former employee, Atsushi Yoshida, 42, is ...
The head of the Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi gangster group was served a fresh arrest warrant Friday in connection with a scuffle at the office of a different yakuza group in Kyoto in January. Kunio Inoue, 68, heads the breakaway group of yakuza formed in 2015 ...
Police referred Takata Corp. and Nissan Motor Co. safety management officials to prosecutors on Friday on suspicion of professional negligence, in relation to a ruptured Takata air bag inflator that caused an injury in a 2015 car accident involving a Nissan vehicle. Shizuoka police ...
A man who was being sentenced for taking upskirt photos of a woman stabs two police officers during his trial in Sendai.
Prosecutors are set to search sites this weekend linked to the nationalist school operator at the center of a scandal tied to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his wife, for evidence of fraud related to subsidies for its preschool, investigative sources said Friday. The ...
A female kindergarten employee has surfaced as an arson suspect in connection with a recent series of fires at her workplace in the city of Osaka, investigative sources said Wednesday. Last month, two suspicious fires broke out at Ikusei Kindergarten in Miyakojima Ward, although ...
The acquittal of former presidents of JR West over a tragic 2005 train derailment has prompted calls for legal reforms that would enable prosecutors to hold corporations criminally liable for causing large-scale accidents.
