The mayor of Yamanashi was arrested Monday for allegedly falsifying the results of a municipal recruitment test last year to help an applicant land a job, the police said. Seiki Mochizuki, 70, is serving his first term as mayor of the mountainous city, which is just outside Kofu, the capital of ...
A court building in Tokyo's Chiyoda Ward started using tablet computers on Tuesday in an effort to make it easier ...
A senior health official who was formerly vice governor of Niigata is fatally stabbed in her brother’s Tokyo apartment, resulting ...
A South Korean court has for the second time in a week ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to compensate Korean victims of Japan's wartime forced labor. Friday's ruling compels the major maker of heavy machinery to pay four victims a total of 470 million won ...
The man arrested in connection with two sisters whose bodies were found in the woods in Kanagawa Prefecture is served a fresh warrant for murder.
Family of 22-year-old man says suicide was the result of psychological damage after he was forced to confess past experiences of being bullied.
A South Korean court on Tuesday ordered Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ltd. to pay compensation over forced labor by two women during World War II. In the latest ruling concerning such practices during the Japanese rule of the Korean Peninsula between 1910 and 1945, the Gwangju ...
A man has been arrested in the western Tokyo suburb of Machida after allegedly kicking a woman who was listening to music on her smartphone just before they nearly collided on a street, police said Monday. Shoichi Nagai, 55, was arrested Friday on a charge ...
Lawyers poring over the activity logs that led to the defense minister's exit suspect that redactions point to illegal activities.
New Justice Minister Yoko Kamikawa says her ministry might submit a bill to lower the legal age of adulthood from 20 to 18 this fall.
The Kanagawa Prefectural Government is considering strengthening its regulations on dating services that hire teenagers, by restricting businesses that dispatch underage staff to customers. The prefecture prohibits operators of such services from having women under 18 make physical contact with customers in private rooms, but ...
A police officer left a plastic bag filled with parts of a woman in her 80s at a garbage dump near a Tokyo police station in July, the Metropolitan Police Department said Friday, adding that some of them had yet to be recovered due ...
Yoko Kamikawa, who became justice minister in Thursday's Cabinet shake-up, said she will "act carefully and strictly as required by the law" regarding capital punishment, respecting the sentences handed down by courts. "The death penalty is an extremely serious punishment that ends a person's life, ...
A man detained on suspicion of attempted murder died Thursday of injuries received in a car accident that occurred a day earlier while he was being transported in a police van, Saga Prefectural Police said. According to investigators, the police van swerved into the opposite ...
The operator of a Korean senior high school in the city of Hiroshima appealed to a higher court Tuesday a ruling dismissing its claim for the publicly funded tuition support that covers most of the nation's high schools. The appeal comes just days after a ...
