The police say the Nagoya student who admitted killing an elderly woman last month took photos of the corpse and felt “fulfilled” by the slaying.

More than 1,700 people filed a group lawsuit on Thursday against major education service provider Benesse Corp. over last year’s massive theft of customer data. They are demanding ¥55,000 in damages for each plaintiff. The plaintiffs in the suit, filed at the Tokyo District ...

A Nagoya student who has admitted killing an elderly woman also reveals she poisoned a former high school classmate as police turn up suspicious chemicals in her apartment.

A woman charged with poisoning her husband faces a second murder charge, bolstering suspicions she had a hand in the deaths of several other former partners.

The Osaka District Court is upholding the use of data from police GPS tracking devices which officers attached to cars suspected of being used by criminals. Presiding Judge Hidenori Nagai decided Tuesday to admit as evidence data from such devices even though they were ...

Amazon.com Inc.’s Japan unit is “fully cooperating” with a police investigation into possible sales of child pornography, the company said in an emailed statement. Aichi Prefectural Police conducted raids on the Internet retailer’s Tokyo headquarters and a distribution center in Chiba Prefecture on Jan. ...

According to an anti-government source in Syria, the two Japanese hostages captured by the Islamic State group are still alive.

The Public Security Examination Commission says that two spinoffs of Aum Shinrikyo, the doomsday cult that carried out the deadly sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system in 1995, will remain under surveillance for three more years starting Feb. 1. The three-year extension ...

The Tokyo District Public Prosecutor’s Office dismissed a case Thursday against three former senior executives of Tokyo Electric Power Co. again over their alleged negligence for failing to prevent the March 2011 tsunami-triggered meltdowns at the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant. The prosecutor’s ...