Killer of Tokyo family still on run after 20 years despite clues
The initial police investigation was criticized, with some saying officers failed to obtain information from various sources, including people in the neighborhood.
Man indicted over Kyoto Animation arson attack that killed 36
Prosecutors indicted a 42-year-old man Wednesday over an arson attack in July last year on a Kyoto Animation Co. studio that killed 36 people and injured 33 others. Shinji Aoba, who was arrested in May for perpetrating one of Japan's worst mass murders, has likely ...
Man given death sentence for 2018 murders of five in Kagoshima
Immediately after the ruling was handed down, Tomohiro Iwakura lunged at the prosecutors and had to be restrained by prison officers.
Third of Tokyo subway sarin attack victims likely suffered PTSD
One-third of victims of the March 1995 deadly sarin nerve gas attack on Tokyo's subway system long suffered symptoms related to posttraumatic stress disorder, according to a study by Hiroshima University and others. "The victims may be still suffering from symptoms" even 25 years after ...
Japan 'Twitter killer' pleads guilty to killing and dismembering nine people
The 2017 case involves victims — eight women and one man ages 15 to 26 — who had expressed suicidal thoughts via the social media site.
Life sentence to be finalized for Peruvian killer of six in Saitama
Vayron Jonathan Nakada Ludena broke into three houses and stabbed the occupants in 2015.
Mourners Sunday visited the scene of an attack on a care home for people with mental disabilities in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, four years ago, to honor the victims. An annual memorial ceremony sponsored by the prefectural government was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead, ...
Kyoto Animation studio marks one year since deadly arson attack
Around 100 bereaved family members and company officials on Saturday marked the first anniversary of the country’s worst crime in decades.
A year after stabbing spree, Kawasaki school remembers victims
A student and the father of another student were killed in the attack that also injured 18 others.
'Armed bandits' kill 47 in northwest Nigeria's Katsina state
Gunmen killed 47 people in attacks on villages in the northwestern Nigerian state of Katsina in the early hours of Saturday, local police said. "Armed bandits," some of whom wielded AK-47 assault rifles, carried out the attacks, Katsina police said in a statement on Sunday. Hundreds ...
25 years after Tokyo subway attack, Aum is a shadow of its former self
Doomsday cult Aum Shinrikyo's sarin gas attack on Tokyo subway trains shocked Japan and the world, raising concerns over nonstate organizations obtaining weapons of mass destruction.
Japan marks 25 years since deadly Aum sarin attack on Tokyo subway
The cult’s founder Shoko Asahara and senior members were executed in 2018.
