In a move certain to stir up controversy over the protection of the rights of minors, a weekly magazine publishes the real name and youth photo of a man who, as a teen in 1997, killed two children in Kobe.

The number of cases involving quasi-legal drugs that authorities took action against in the first half of 2015 rose to 633, nearly five times more than the 127 reported in the same period the previous year, a police report showed Thursday. The preliminary report by ...

Police arrested an American man Thursday on suspicion of abandoning the body of a woman found last week in a cove in Miura, Kanagawa Prefecture. Gregory Joseph Gumo, 41, who lives in Yokohama and says he is unemployed, allegedly abandoned the body of Mariko Akitaya, ...

A U.S. government report released Monday shows more than 1,800 immigrants who federal agents sought to deport were nevertheless released from local jails and later re-arrested for various crimes. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement report — which covers the immigration detainers that were declined between ...

The Abe administration has decided not to submit to the upcoming Diet session a controversial bill aimed at punishing people involved in plotting serious crimes, government sources said on Wednesday. The government has so far presented bills to the Diet three times to revise the ...

Police can conduct a limited search of a suspect's cellphone when they are arrested without getting a search warrant, but they must follow strict rules, a divided Supreme Court of Canada ruled Thursday. In its precedent-setting, 4-3 decision, the country's top court said the search ...

A 68-year-old woman arrested by Kyoto Prefectural Police on Nov. 19 in connection with the cyanide poisoning of her husband has been charged by Kyoto prosecutors with his murder. Chisako Kakehi was charged with causing the death of Isao Kakehi, 75, on Dec. 28, 2013, ...