National / Crime & Legal May 19, 2018
The video producer was attacked at night while leaving the public broadcaster’s headquarters but robbery does not appear to be the motive.
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National / Crime & Legal May 15, 2018
Former city assembly member accused of Chiba restaurant stabbings handed to prosecutors
Police on Tuesday handed over to prosecutors a man who is accused of stabbing all four members of a family he was dining with at a restaurant near Tokyo, killing a 6-year-old girl. Motomu Oda, 46, the older brother of the girl's mother, was arrested ...
National / Crime & Legal May 14, 2018
6-year-old girl dead after man with knife attacks family of four at Chiba restaurant
The suspect is a former municipal assembly member in the city of Chiba.
National / Crime & Legal Mar 15, 2018
Man arrested after stabbing four officials at Kanazawa City Hall
A 33-year-old man in possession of knives was arrested Wednesday after stabbing four officials at Kanazawa City Hall in Ishikawa Prefecture, police said. Junichi Takahata was apprehended on the seventh floor of the building after stabbing male and female employees in their 50s and 60s ...
National Jan 21, 2018
Kagoshima teen held over stabbing of high school girl said target 'could be anyone'
A male teen held for allegedly stabbing a female high school student in the city of Kagoshima earlier this month told police his target "could be anyone," investigative sources said Sunday. Given that the 15-year-old chased his 16-year-old target around after stabbing her on Jan. ...
National / Crime & Legal Jan 15, 2018
A man was arrested Monday on suspicion of stabbing two men the previous night, one fatally, in what appeared to be random attacks, the police said. The alleged stabbings took place on a street in Asakita Ward, Hiroshima, about 800 meters northeast of Kodohomachigawa Station. The ...
National / Crime & Legal Dec 8, 2017
Nara mom arrested for stabbing son's 8-year-old female classmate
Rie Chisaka, a 41-year-old part-time worker in Ikoma, Nara Prefecture, was arrested Thursday after she called the police to report that she had stabbed her 8-year-old son's female classmate. The responding officer found the suspect with her son and the victim. Police said the girl, ...
National / Crime & Legal Sep 14, 2017
A 48-year-old man was arrested Thursday on suspicion of fatally stabbing a woman and seriously injuring her 4-year-old daughter in Osaka Prefecture, investigators said. Shigenobu Kobayashi, who lived with Megumi Futase, 35, allegedly stabbed her and her daughter Wakaha with a kitchen knife at a ...
National / Crime & Legal Sep 5, 2017
Saitama boy, 15, admits fatally stabbing fellow high school student in crime of passion
A 15-year-old male high school boy who was arrested Monday for allegedly stabbing fellow student Kosuke Nishiyama, 16, to death in Saitama has admitted he committed the act because the victim was trying to steal his girlfriend, police said. "I tried to kill him because ...
National / Crime & Legal Sep 4, 2017
Saitama teen held in fatal stabbing of ex-girlfriend's new boyfriend
A 15-year-old high school student was arrested Monday on suspicion of fatally stabbing another teenage boy in Soka, Saitama Prefecture, who was thought to have been dating his former girlfriend. Police allege the suspect, whose name is being withheld because he is a minor, killed ...
World Aug 19, 2017
Finnish stabbings treated as terrorism; suspect targeted women
Finnish police said on Saturday that an 18-year-old Moroccan man arrested after knife attacks that killed two people in the city of Turku appeared to have specifically targeted women and that the spree was being treated as terrorism-related. The suspect arrested on Friday after ...
World / Crime & Legal Jul 29, 2017
Known knife-wielding Islamist kills one, injures six in Germany
The migrant who killed one person and injured six others in a knife attack in a Hamburg supermarket on Friday was an Islamist known to German security forces, who say they believed he posed no immediate threat, the city-state's interior minister said on Saturday. A ...