Four people were killed and four others were injured early Saturday in a four-car accident in Tsugaru, Aomori Prefecture, the police said. Two of the vehicles collided head-on at around 1:05 a.m. on a straight, two-lane road in a rural part of the city, before ...
A car rammed into a group of pedestrians in central Tokyo on Tuesday, injuring seven people, with the driver arrested on the spot, police and rescue workers said. Police arrested Junichi Ono, 52, on suspicion of negligence resulting in injuries. He slightly injured his forehead ...
A car collides head-on with an expressway bus in Aichi Prefecture, killing one man and injuring 45 other people.
Tokyo police arrest man, 20, in stolen truck after 40-minute chase
A 20-year-old man who allegedly stole a truck was arrested Wednesday after crashing into police cars following a 40-minute chase in downtown Tokyo. When a policeman determined that the truck was listed as stolen at around 2:00 p.m. in Tokyo's Koto Ward and told the ...
Car drives off parking garage in Yokosuka, killing three and injuring two
A car carrying a family of five drove off the fifth-floor ramp of a parking garage Saturday in Yokosuka near Tokyo, leaving three dead and two seriously injured, police said. The police suspect the driver made some error when parking the vehicle, and while backing ...
The Sapporo District Court has sentenced two men to 23 years in prison for engaging in a fatal street race in Sunagawa, Hokkaido, that ended up decimating a family of five last year. In a rare judicial decision Thursday, the court ruled that Ryuji Tanikoshi ...
Driver in deadly Osaka pedestrian ramming may have had fatal heart issue
Osaka police are investigating whether a medical issue incapacitated the driver of a car that mowed down people on a sidewalk in the city the previous day, killing himself, a pedestrian and injuring eight others, a source close to the investigation said Friday. The driver, ...
Five students found dead on Nara road after apparently being thrown from car
Five students, all aged 19, were confirmed dead early Thursday morning after they were found lying on the road, apparently having been thrown from a car that crashed into a bridge railing in Asuka, Nara Prefecture, police said. The victims were all residents of Nara ...
Japan acts swiftly to ban loophole drugs used in driving spree
In the face of a series of accidents caused by drivers high on law-skirting "dappo" drugs, the health ministry used new emergency powers Tuesday to ban two substances. The substances are believed to have been used by a man who allegedly killed one pedestrian and ...
Man held in suspected drunken hit-and-run after three killed at Hokkaido beach
Hokkaido police arrested a 31-year-old man Monday for allegedly hitting four women while driving a recreational vehicle near a beach in Otaru, Hokkaido, killing three of them before he fled the scene. Masahide Kaizu of Sapporo was arrested on suspicion of hitting the women as ...
The death of a pedestrian run over by a driver who was allegedly using "dappo" herbs just shows the quasi-legal narcotic is on the rise, experts say.
A Japanese couple and their 16-year-old son died when their van collided head-on with a pickup truck in northern Arizona on Friday, media reports said. Their 9-year-old daughter was injured. The driver of the truck, under pursuit by police, crossed the center line and crashed ...
