Japan's Supreme Court confirms lighter sentence for man who fatally stabbed two
The Supreme Court has upheld a high court ruling that overturned a death sentence and gave an indefinite term to an unemployed man for killing two pedestrians in the city of Osaka in 2012. Kyozo Isohi, 44, stabbed Shingo Minamino, then 42, and Toshi Sasaki, ...
Police arrested a man wanted over the slaying of a 20-year-old woman in the city of Niigata. Ryosuke Saito, 25, had been on the run since Yuzuki Ishizawa was stabbed to death in a building near Niigata Station on Friday evening. He was arrested Monday after ...
Arrest warrant issued for man over fatal stabbing of woman in Niigata
The Niigata Prefectural Police on Saturday obtained an arrest warrant for a man wanted in the fatal stabbing of a 20-year-old woman in a busy nightlife area in the city of Niigata. Ryosuke Saito, 25, was placed on the nationwide wanted list after Yuzuki Ishizawa ...
Case of Aomori boy who confessed to slashing girl's throat sent to prosecutors for attempted murder
Several knives were found in a bag he was believed to be carrying at the time of Tuesday’s incident, investigative sources said.
14-year-old boy confesses to slashing schoolgirl's throat in northeastern Japan
The suspect told police in Aomori Prefecture that he “intended to kill” the sixth-grader. “It didn’t matter who it was,” the boy was quoted as saying.
Four police killed in Paris stabbing, with attacker shot dead
An IT staffer for the Paris police headquarters stabbed to death four colleagues at the building in the heart of the French capital on a knife-wielding rampage Thursday before he was shot dead, officials said. A fifth person was critically injured and was being treated ...
Cambodian court convicts two Japanese in murder of taxi driver
Two Japanese men in their 20s were convicted Thursday in the murder of a taxi driver in Cambodia's northwestern province of Siem Reap earlier this year and sentenced to at least a decade in prison. Um Chanthol, presiding judge of the Siem Reap Provincial Court, ...
Ibaraki boy who survived knife attack says his parents' masked killer acted alone
According to the sources, the police believe the assailant entered the house intending to commit murder, as none of the rooms were ransacked.
Police end probe of Kawasaki stabbing rampage with motive still a mystery
Police on Monday formally ended their investigation of a man who went on a fatal stabbing rampage in Kawasaki earlier this year targeting schoolchildren before killing himself. Ryuichi Iwasaki, 51, carried out the knife attack on the morning of May 28 at a spot where ...
A knife-wielding man killed one person and attempted to stab several others in a central Sydney rampage on Tuesday before being chased and pinned down by members of the public, witnesses said. Police said a 21-year-old Sydney man with a history of mental illness is ...
Two men injured in separate stabbings in Yokohama; one suspect arrested
An unemployed man is arrested after two men — a parcel deliveryman and a public servant — are stabbed on the street in Yokohama.
A Shikoku man stabbed three nurses and a policeman Friday at a hospital in Ehime Prefecture before being subdued, local police said, adding that the victims were being treated and remained conscious. The nurses were stabbed in the chest and abdomen and the officer in ...
