A group including atomic bomb survivors in Hiroshima Prefecture have filed a lawsuit to challenge the constitutionality of the national security laws enacted last September. In the suit against the government, filed with Hiroshima District Court on Friday, the group of 165 plaintiffs, which included war veterans, demanded a halt ...
The Osaka District Court has ordered an anti-Korean group and its former chairman to pay ¥770,000 in damages to a ...
A younger brother of Texas Ranger pitcher Yu Darvish was convicted Tuesday of gambling on baseball games, with the Osaka ...
A murder investigation is launched after an 88-year-old man dies from a suspected poison medical drip at a Yokohama hospital. Three other suspicious death are also being probed.
Police arrest a senior member of a crime syndicate and two others for allegedly taking bets on baseball games, including from former Yomiuri Giants players.
A 20-year-old Mazda Motor Corp. worker was arrested Saturday for allegedly killing a colleague at a company dormitory in Hiroshima and robbing him of cash, police said. Suguru Kamikawa is suspected of beating Kyohei Sugano, 19, to death with a fire extinguisher in an ...
A Canadian environmental activist who waged a sustained online campaign against two prominent marine scientists is found guilty of harassment in British Columbia.
The alleged perpetrator of a deadly knife rampage in July at a care facility for the disabled searched online for terms related to psychiatric evaluation.
A 33-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of killing a male acquaintance whose dismembered body was found in July around Lake Hamanako in Shizuoka Prefecture, police said. Tatsuya Kawasaki, unemployed, was also served a separate arrest warrant Thursday for allegedly abandoning the body ...
The Japan Federation of Bar Associations will launch a campaign next month for the abolition of capital punishment, arguing that even the worst offenders stand a chance of reintegration in society. It will ask its members to approve the move at a meeting on ...
People near the site of helipads to be built for the U.S. military file suit against Tokyo, seeking to stop construction due to noise problems.
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, ...
The Tokyo District Court sentences a student to two years in prison, suspended for four years, for his role in a sexual assault.
Several boys pushed two people who were fishing off separate jetties into the sea in Osaka early Monday morning, according to police. Both victims managed to climb out of the water by themselves and were not injured. Osaka police are looking for the boys ...
A 30-year-old man in Nishitokyo has been arrested on suspicion of murdering his elderly next-door neighbor, police said. Part-time worker Dai Hiraoka has admitted to fatally stabbing Kazuyo Tada, 79, in the neck, police said. They were neighbors in the same apartment building. The ...
