A U.S. Navy sailor arrested in Okinawa in June for drunken driving was found guilty on Tuesday but was spared prison time. The Naha District Court sentenced 21-year-old Petty Officer 2nd Class Aimee Mejia, stationed at Kadena Air Base, to three years in prison, ...
A 25-year-old suspect tells police that she murdered her 21-year-old brother after the two had what she said was “a small trouble.”
The man suspected of killing an employee at a construction firm last week in the city of Wakayama and who later shot himself to death had stimulants in his system, police said. The Wakayama Prefectural Police collected urine samples from the body of Yasuhide ...
A U.S. Marine has been arrested in Okinawa Prefecture on suspicion of attempting to enter a woman’s residence, local police said Wednesday. Isaac Edward Harkless, 26, who is stationed at Camp Courtney in the city of Uruma, was taken into custody Tuesday on suspicion ...
Four more teenage boys were arrested Friday in connection with the slaying of a boy whose body was found on a riverbank in Saitama Prefecture on Tuesday. A fifth teen was arrested Thursday after allegedly bragging on an online messaging system that he had ...
Actor Yuta Takahata, 22, was arrested on early Tuesday after he allegedly sexually assaulted a hotel worker in Maebashi, Gunma Prefecture. The victim, who is in her 40s, reportedly sustained injuries. Police say Takahata admitted assaulting the woman, telling them he “couldn’t control” his ...
A former lawyer apprehended last month in Thailand has been placed under arrest in Japan for allegedly manipulating the stock price of an electrical test equipment maker in 2005. Until he was taken into custody by Thai police in July on a Japanese warrant, ...
Three men were arrested Tuesday for allegedly selling beef cutlets that a major curry restaurant chain had intended to dispose of. There were identified as Kazuyuki Onishi, 75, head of a now effectively defunct industrial waste disposal company in Aichi Prefecture; Masao Okada, 78, ...
A Japan Airlines copilot has been arrested in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, after he allegedly assaulted a police officer during a night out. The airline said Soichi Tatsumi, 42, was seen hitting a 49-year-old JAL captain he had been drinking with Monday evening and then ...
Actor Noboru Takachi, 51, was arrested at a “love hotel” with a 33-year-old bar hostess. A stimulant and marijuana were found in the room, according to authorities.
A 69-year-old woman in Kiyosu, Aichi Prefecture, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly placing on store shelves margarine whose use-by dates had expired three years ago. Tsuyako Kishi reportedly put four margarine packages on the shelf of a supermarket in Kiyosu on May 23. The ...
A man was arrested in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, on Thursday on suspicion of fatally attacking a mother and daughter over noise issues in their apartment building. Hayao Toyoshima, 67, allegedly attacked Hatsuko Nishi, 61, and her visiting younger daughter, Chiharu Adachi, 33, at around ...
