A 36-year-old Osaka man and his 19-year-old wife were arrested on suspicion of leaving their 3-month-old son alone at home overnight, the Osaka Prefectural Police said Tueday, adding the baby apparently died of heatstroke during that time.The son was found face down in his ...
A 42-year-old woman from Sakai, Osaka Prefecture, was arrested Tuesday for allegedly setting a man on fire and causing burns over his entire body, police said.The man, who is in his 40s and was apparently the woman’s boyfriend, remains unconscious in a hospital in ...
A 14-year-old boy was arrested on an attempted murder charge on Tuesday after allegedly dropping a 5-year-old girl from the second floor of a sports facility in Hiroshima Prefecture.The girl suffered a broken jaw requiring three weeks of treatment in the Monday evening incident ...
A 14-year-old fame seeker in Osaka is taken into custody for allegedly making ransomware, becoming the first person to Japan to receive the dubious honor.
An elderly man is arrested after allegedly setting a fire on a shinkansen traveling through Okayama Prefecture.
Life as a yakuza mobster is getting so hard that some are resorting to shoplifting food.Two members of an organized crime gang were arrested for allegedly trying to steal grocery items worth ¥76,120 ($683) at a mall in Nagoya, police said on Wednesday. “They ...
Two men were charged on Monday for allegedly damaging the corpse of an acquaintance with an alkaline substance in 2015, the police said.The suspects allegedly used a chemical — likely sodium hydroxide — to dissolve the body of Kazumasa Iwamoto, 47, in May 2015, ...
Thai police say they have arrested a Japanese woman wanted for allegedly running a multimillion-dollar pyramid investment scheme in her homeland.Immigration Department chief Lt. Gen. Nutthorn Prawsunthorn said Wednesday that Setsuko Yamabe, 62, persuaded victims to invest ¥700 million ($6.3 million) in a fund ...
A Brazilian soccer club brushed aside a storm of criticism Tuesday to sign a goalkeeper convicted for murdering his girlfriend, whose body was fed to the dogs.Bruno Fernandes, 32, was presented before reporters at a hastily arranged news conference in the southeastern city of ...
A Tokyo man has been arrested on suspicion of long-term child abuse involving his ex-girlfriend’s twin 8-year-old sons.Shuji Tomohiro, 35, is accused of throwing the boys, then 7 years old, into bushes in front of his house in Fuchu on Nov. 16, 2015. One ...
A 27-year-old man from Tokyo’s Sumida Ward has been arrested for allegedly forcing an acquaintance who resembles him to report to police in his place over speeding charges, police said Wednesday.Masashi Nishiyama, a former operator of a shop that provided sexual services, was arrested ...
The Mie Prefectural Police arrested a truck driver from Iga on Thursday on suspicion of threatening a delivery firm employee with a chain saw.The police said Kazuki Hasegawa, 27, posted a YouTube video of him threatening an employee at Yamato Transport Co.’s delivery center ...
