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MURDER

JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jun 3, 2014
Police trace mother of toddler starved to death
The mother of a boy whose skeletal remains were found last week in a trash-filled apartment in Kanagawa Prefecture has been located by police.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 31, 2014
Man held after remains of child found in Kanagawa apartment
Police arrested a 36-year-old truck driver Saturday after they found skeletal remains believed to be of a child inside an apartment in Atsugi, Kanagawa Prefecture, following a report of a missing boy.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 29, 2014
Body in Sapporo park believed to be nurse missing since May 4
The Hokkaido Prefectural Police said Thursday they will have an autopsy performed on a decomposed body believed to be that of a missing woman found the day before in a park in Sapporo.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 27, 2014
U.S. police defend actions after California college town murder spree
Police in the California community where a man killed six college students said on Monday they had no grounds to search the 22-year-old suspect's home when they met with him in April over a report that he had posted disturbing videos online.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 26, 2014
Police almost thwarted killer's plot, manifesto says
A 22-year-old who killed six people in a rampage through a California college town before taking his own life said in a chilling manifesto that police nearly foiled his plot when they visited him last month.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 24, 2014
Gunman kills six in drive-by shooting in California college town
A lone gunman sprayed bullets from a car in a drive-by shooting in a southern California college town, killing at least six people before his car crashed and he was found dead inside, authorities said on Saturday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
May 17, 2014
Pakistani minority 'blasphemer' slain
A teenager reportedly walked into a Pakistani police station Friday and shot dead a 65-year-old man from a minority sect who had been accused of blasphemy, the second murder involving the country's controversial blasphemy laws in as many weeks.
Japan Times
WORLD
May 9, 2014
U.N. accuses both sides in South Sudan conflict of crimes against humanity
The United Nations on Thursday accused both government and rebel forces in South Sudan of committing crimes against humanity, including murder, rape and other sexual violence, during almost five months of fighting that has left thousands of people dead.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
May 5, 2014
Sinn Fein's Gerry Adams urges calm after release
Northern Ireland police released Gerry Adams from custody Sunday and the Sinn Fein leader sought to calm fears that his four-day detention could destabilize the British province by pledging his support to the peace process.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
May 2, 2014
Hostess murdered in Osaka stalker case
Osaka police prepare to arrest a stalker suspected of murdering a bar hostess after failing to protect her, recalling the slaying of a teen in Mitaka earlier this year.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 15, 2014
Ex-Ku Klux Klan leader charged in Kansas Jewish center killings
The suspect in the Passover Eve killings of three people at two Jewish community centers near Kansas City is a former Ku Klux Klan leader with a history of spewing vitriol against Jews, law enforcement officials said Monday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 14, 2014
Three reported dead in shootings at Jewish centers in Kansas
Three people were killed Sunday afternoon at two different Jewish community facilities in a Kansas City-area suburb, and a man was held in custody as police attempted to discover whether or not the shootings were anti-Semitic, authorities said.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 11, 2014
Russia reportedly omitted details on Boston Marathon bombing suspect
Russia declined several FBI requests for more information on Boston Marathon bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev two years before the deadly 2013 attack, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing an unpublished U.S. government review.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 8, 2014
Tearful Pistorius details terrified, sleepless nights since shooting
His voice trembling with emotion, Oscar Pistorius took the witness stand in his own defense Monday, saying the Valentine's Day shooting of his girlfriend last year had left him sleepless, terrified and plagued by nightmares.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 5, 2014
Organ-harvesting claims to EU court
Plans are underway for a European Union-backed special tribunal to try Kosovo Albanian former guerrillas accused of harvesting organs from murdered Serbs during the Balkan country's 1998-99 war, officials say.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 4, 2014
Portrait of Fort Hood shooter starts to emerge
When Ivan Lopez's mother died last year, he told friends the U.S. Army had given him just one day to attend her funeral in Puerto Rico.
Japan Times
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Apr 4, 2014
U.S. Army names Fort Hood shooter, says had mental illness
The soldier suspected of shooting dead three people before killing himself at the Fort Hood Army base in Texas was identified as Ivan Lopez, a man battling mental illness when he went on a rampage, the base commander said on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Mar 6, 2014
No ethnic link seen to Kunming knife attack
A deadly knife attack at a Chinese train station last week should not be linked to ethnicity, a senior government official said, days after authorities blamed the incident on separatists from its troubled Xinjiang region.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 6, 2014
Kashiwa stabbing suspect's identity: 'celeb NEET'
The 24-year-old suspect in the murder of a man on a street in Kashiwa, Chiba Prefecture, on Monday is believed to have posted a profile online in which he identified himself as a "celeb NEET," meaning a celebrity without a job, according to local online news site J-Cast News.
JAPAN
Mar 3, 2014
Youth, 18, held, admits to August slaying of Mie girl, 15
An 18-year-old male was arrested late Sunday for murdering a 15-year-old female last August in Mie Prefecture, police said.

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