Police in Guangdong province, China, have formally arrested a 70-year-old municipal assembly member from Aichi Prefecture for allegedly possessing illegal drugs, local officials said Monday. Takuma Sakuragi, a member of the Inazawa Municipal Assembly, was taken into custody at Guangzhou’s Baiyun International Airport on ...
The former manager of the Nagano construction employees’ pension fund admits to embezzlement after being arrested in Bangkok.
A 39-year-old Brazilian man facing an arrest warrant for alleged theft and overstaying his visa leaped to his death from a 16-meter roof of an apartment building in Toyota, Aichi Prefecture, on Tuesday evening, police said. Frederico Sakamoto, who jumped from the five-story prefecture-run ...
A 40-year-old man was arrested Thursday after driving his truck into a house in Kawaguchi, Saitama Prefecture, and attacking the three residents with a saw, police said. The three people — one man and two women — as well as another man who detained ...
Police have arrested a store manager from Kyoto on suspicion of stabbing to death his former girlfriend, whose body was found earlier this week on a path in Kameoka, Kyoto Prefecture, police officials said. The police allege Takashi Okamoto, 47, who turned himself in ...
Four teenage boys were arrested earlier this month for allegedly robbing and injuring a man on a Tokyo street because they needed cash to buy custom-made outfits to sport in a handshaking event involving the pop idol group AKB48, police said Monday. The boys, ...
The Japan Coast Guard has arrested the captain of a South Korean fishing boat that ignored an order to stop for inspection in Japan’s exclusive economic zone, the coast guard said Sunday. Im Chae-moon, 57, was arrested at around 6:10 p.m. Saturday in waters ...
A 21-year-old man is arrested along with two male and three female teenagers in connection with the slaying of a 16-year-old girl, whose corpse was found on a mountain in Hiroshima Prefecture.
Three managers at a popular Roppongi nightclub are arrested under an archaic law during a raid for allegedly operating without a license.
A man who knifed four people on the street during a rampage in central Tokyo is arrested on suspicion of attempted murder.
Singaporean photographer Leslie Kee and two others have been arrested on suspicion of selling photo collections containing images of male genitalia in Tokyo, an act police say constitutes illegal distribution of obscene documents. Kee, 41, a Japan-based photographer known for his published works featuring ...
The Japan Coast Guard arrests the captain of a Chinese boat on suspicion of illegally fishing for coral in Japan's exclusive economic zone near an island in Okinawa.
