Well-known Japanese doctor and humanitarian Tetsu Nakamura gunned down in Afghanistan attack
The 73-year-old physician, who headed Peace Japan Medical Services, was killed by gunmen while in a vehicle in Jalalabad, in Nangarhar province, according to Afghan officials.
Man arrested over stabbing of two, said to be former colleagues, near Korakuen Station
A 26-year-old man was arrested for allegedly stabbing two people with a knife on a street near Tokyo Metro Co.'s Korakuen Station in the capital's Bunkyo Ward on Thursday night. The suspect, Takashi Kaneda, was arrested at the scene on attempted murder charges. The victims of ...
'I wanted to kill a person': Saitama man arrested after three Cambodians injured in knife attack
Police have arrested a 39-year-old man from Hanyu, Saitama Prefecture, on charges of attempted murder in relation to a knife attack in which three Cambodians were injured. Saitama Prefectural Police said Sunday that Hideaki Nakayama had entered a different apartment in the same building where ...
German tourist admits to knife attack on Japanese man in Nagasaki while drunk
A German tourist indicted for attempted murder admitted Wednesday to stabbing a Japanese man in a random attack on a street in Nagasaki last year during his first court hearing. But lawyers for Tobias Gross, 25, told the Nagasaki District Court that they will contest ...
Shinkansen operator JR Tokai holds drill involving knife attacker
Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai) on Wednesday conducted its first drill involving a knife-wielding attacker on a bullet train following a deadly rampage on a shinkansen train in June. Based on the scenario that a knife-wielding man is in a train car, members of ...
Asahi Shimbun remembers 29-year-old reporter killed in 1987 ultra-rightist attack
The Asahi Shimbun daily and local residents on Thursday paid tribute to a 29-year-old reporter killed in a 1987 shooting at its western Japan bureau, in an attack claimed by ultra-rightists angered by the newspaper's "anti-national" reporting. Company officials also renewed their pledge to defend ...
Computer ransomware that locks out users flourishes in pay-to-make-it-go-away Japan
Companies and individuals in Japan are finding their computers are increasingly targeted by ransomware — programs that bar victims from accessing important files unless they pay money. "Attacks on Japanese businesses have been particularly large in number," said Masakatsu Morii, a professor of information and ...
Indonesian police say IS-backed militants planned to carry out New Year's Eve attack
Indonesian militants supporting the Islamic State militant group planned to attack a police post on New Year's Eve with machetes and knives, a police spokesman said Monday. The plot was broken up after police arrested two of the would-be attackers who led them to their ...
Gunma bear driven away by karate punches after picking fight with wrong person
A black bear got the surprise of its life when it attacked a 63-year-old man who happened to be a high-ranking practitioner of karate, police in Gunma Prefecture said. The man, from Naganohara, was fishing on the nearby Jizo River when what appeared to be ...
Pakistan Taliban kill at least 19 as they storm university
Islamist Taliban militants stormed a university in volatile northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens as the army hunted for any gunmen still holed up on the campus, officials said. A security official said the death toll could rise to ...
France's ambassador to Burkina Faso said Saturday 27 people had been killed in a hotel attack by militant Islamists in the capital Ouagadougou, slightly higher than a death toll of 23 given earlier by the West African nation's president. Ambassador Gilles Thibault also tweeted that ...
Iran's foreign minister has complained to the United Nations about Saudi Arabia's "provocations" towards Tehran, as a diplomatic crisis between the region's two major powers entered its second week. In a letter to the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon published by Iranian news agencies on Saturday, ...
