Police on Friday arrested three boys, including an 18-year-old, in connection with the death of a 13-year-old boy found stabbed to death last week in Kawasaki, investigative sources said. The ...
Police will soon question several boys at once in connection with the fatal stabbing of a 13-year-old boy in Kawasaki last week, investigative sources said Thursday. The boys surfaced after ...
In a first, the Supreme Court backs sexual harassment penalties issued by an Osaka aquarium, overturning a high court ruling.
The mobile phone records of a 13-year-old boy who was found fatally stabbed last week along the Tama River in ...
Police sent to prosecutors on Wednesday the case of a 43-year-old woman who allegedly tampered with road signs by putting ...
Kagawa Prefectural Police sent a report to prosecutors Tuesday on a 23-year-old man who allegedly begged for money online, police said. The police said the unemployed man from Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, whose name was not disclosed, posted a live message on a website using ...
A government panel has proposed a range of revisions to the Civil Code, including the addition of new provisions on the terms and conditions of contracts between businesses and consumers. In a proposal submitted to Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa on Tuesday, the Legislative Council ...
A suspect in a ¥10 million fraud case is only 18 years old, it was learned on Wednesday. Chiba Prefectural Police earlier posted images of the teen on its website and on Twitter, media reports said, but officers deleted the images after they arrested ...
Police have arrested five employees of a Tokyo hostess club who allegedly overcharged a customer and then detained him, demanding that he work to pay off the debt, the Metropolitan Police Department said on Tuesday. The suspects worked for Club Cenote in Kabukicho, Shinjuku ...
A 13-year-old boy found dead on a riverbank in Kawasaki who may have been the victim of bullying was killed with multiple sharp objects, investigative sources said Tuesday, noting the victim had sustained a deep stab wound to the neck. A friend said Ryota ...
A Japanese reporter appealed to a Seoul high court Monday against a lower court’s rejection of his petition for a provisional injunction to suspend a ban on him to leave South Korea over his alleged defamation of South Korean President Park Geun-hye. Tatsuya Kato, ...
Two people seen on security video near where a 13-year-old boy was found dead on a river bank in Kawasaki are about the same age as the victim.
Two Chinese men taking part in a foreign trainee program on a farm in Hokota, Ibaraki Prefecture, were attacked by a group of men with knives Sunday evening, leaving one dead and the other wounded, police said. Sun Wenjun, 33, was pronounced dead at ...
Police are investigating the murder of a male junior high school student after his body was discovered with multiple stab wounds in Kawasaki.
Prosecutors and defense lawyers did not appeal by Friday’s deadline to the Tokyo High Court’s ruling earlier this month to send back to a lower court a high-profile stalking-murder case in which explicit images of the victim were posted on the Internet. A panel ...
Japanese customs authorities last year seized 630 kilograms of illegal drugs such as stimulants, cannabis and cocaine, the Finance Ministry said Friday. The figure was down 37 percent from the previous year, but an official at the ministry’s Customs and Tariff Bureau said the ...
Thai customs officials arrested two Japanese men Friday at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport as they allegedly tried to smuggle exotic and endangered animals to Japan. The officials said the men from Shizuoka Prefecture had pig-nosed turtles, woodchucks, lizards and snakes packed in small boxes, cages ...
