Leader of Kobe Yamaguchi-gumi splinter group arrested over August shooting amid feud in syndicate
A leader of a splinter group of Japan's largest crime syndicate was arrested Tuesday for allegedly shooting a member of the parent group amid a gang feud in Kobe in August, police said. Hiroji Nakata is suspected of shooting a 51-year-old man affiliated with the ...
Protests test sympathies of Chinese mainlanders in Hong Kong
For mainlanders in Hong Kong, the city's protests pose a complicated challenge, with even some who backed the demonstrations now wary of a movement that has become vocally and sometimes even violently anti-China. Christine Wang moved to Hong Kong from the mainland seven years ago, ...
A man who was working at a real estate office in Sapporo has been referred to prosecutors by police for allegedly causing an explosion by emptying deodorizer spray cans last year and injuring more than 40 people nearby. The 34-year-old former Apaman Co. branch manager ...
Prime Minister Boris Johnson vowed Saturday to review Britain's sentencing system after a convicted terrorist released early from prison stabbed two people to death and wounded three in a London Bridge attack. Members of the public were hailed as heroes for preventing greater loss of ...
The National Police Agency said Thursday it will allow people to print their maiden name alongside their married name on driver's licenses starting Sunday. The move is in line with a similar measure taken for the My Number social security and tax identification card. People can ...
Suspected Kyoto Animation arsonist undergoes unprecedented skin grafts
The KyoAni arson suspect, who suffered burns on 90 percent of his body, has become the first person to undergo surgery after such extensive damage without the use of donor skin.
Tokyo police officer referred to prosecutors over car crash that left boy, 4, dead
A Tokyo policeman was referred to prosecutors Tuesday over the death of a 4-year-old boy after he was hit by the officer's patrol car in August. Police added a request for the indictment of the 51-year-old male sergeant at a Shinjuku police station on suspicion ...
Suspect in kidnapping of 12-year-old Osaka girl tells police he 'saved a child who needed help'
The victim reportedly tells a police officer that she had “fled from a man’s house” after “becoming scared” and that there was another girl there.
Police arrest 35-year-old man after missing Osaka girl, 12, is found in Tochigi Prefecture
A 12-year-old Osaka girl, missing for a week, is taken into police custody after she ran away from a man whom she claims kidnapped her and confined her at his home in Tochigi Prefecture.
Three people have been found dead after a fire engulfed a house in the city of Niigata, with police investigating the case as a possible group arson-suicide. According to the police, there were slash wounds on all three bodies found inside the locked house, and ...
A woman in Nagasaki Prefecture has lodged a complaint with the police saying she was sexually harassed by a Catholic priest, it was learned Friday. The Archdiocese of Nagasaki suspended the priest but did not disclose the event to its followers, informed sources said. The archdiocese, ...
Actress Erika Sawajiri tests negative for illegal drugs after admitting to decadelong habit
Actress Erika Sawajiri, arrested for allegedly possessing the synthetic drug MDMA, has tested negative in a urine test for MDMA and other illegal drugs, police said Wednesday. After she was arrested last week, the 33-year-old was said to have told investigators she obtained MDMA from ...
