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STABBINGS

Investigations have found no links between 24-year-old suspect Hiroyuki Taniuchi and Rena Tegara, the 15-year-old girl fatally stabbed in the city of Saitama on Monday, leading police to believe she might have been a random target. Taniuchi has been sent to prosecutors.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 17, 2025
High school girl fatally stabbed in Saitama may have been a random target
Investigations have uncovered no links between victim Rena Tegara and her alleged attacker, 24-year-old Hiroyuki Taniuchi.
Police seal off an area around a condominium in the city of Saitama where a 15-year-old girl was stabbed to death on Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 15, 2025
Man arrested after fatal stabbing of teenage girl in Saitama
The 15-year-old high school girl was attacked as she was returning home Monday evening by a man who was standing near the entrance of a building.
A man in his 50s was arrested Sunday for allegedly stabbing his wife at a supermarket in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 13, 2025
Man arrested over fatal stabbing of woman at a supermarket in Tokyo
The woman was taken to the hospital unconscious and was later confirmed dead, according to police.
The body of a high school girl was found in a closet at the home of Masaki Eguchi, a 21-year-old unemployed man, on Tuesday in the city of Ichinomiya in Aichi Prefecture.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 2, 2025
Aichi man admits to stabbing Tokyo high school girl over gaming dispute
The victim went missing after saying on Friday she was going to the home of a friend she met through online gaming.
According to Aichi police, the body of a woman found in a closet was fully wrapped in cloth and had multiple stab wounds to the neck and shoulder.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Apr 1, 2025
Aichi man arrested after woman's body found in closet
Masaki Eguchi, a resident of the city of Ichinomiya, has admitted to abandoning a body.
A vehicle carrying Kunihiko Katsuta enters the Hyogo Prefectural Police's Tatsuno Police Station in Tatsuno, Hyogo Prefecture, in November following his arrest on suspicion of attempted murder.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 19, 2025
Man indicted over '06 and '07 Hyogo elementary school girl attacks
Both cases remained unsolved for years due to a lack of physical evidence, including the weapon used.
Shion Miyanishi (center) was arrested on the spot on Friday after attacking NHK Party head Takashi Tachibana in Tokyo.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 16, 2025
Man arrested for NHK Party head attack had strong intent to kill, police say
Police said the suspect also used a stun grenade right before the attack in order to cause panic.
Flowers placed near the scene where a woman was stabbed on Tuesday in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 14, 2025
Tokyo murder suspect stabbed woman for more than a minute
The Metropolitan Police Department believes that the suspect, Kenichi Takano, 42, had developed a grudge against the victim, Airi Sato, 22.
Kenichi Takano leaves a police station in Tokyo on Thursday to be sent over to prosecutors.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 13, 2025
Man arrested in Tokyo stabbing tracked victim through livestream
Police turned over Kenichi Takano to prosecutors on suspicion of murder, believing he used the livestream to track the victim's location.
Tokyo police at a site where a woman had been stabbed while livestreaming in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Tuesday
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 12, 2025
Tokyo livestream murder victim stabbed over alleged debt dispute
The attack occurred at around 9:50 a.m. on Tuesday in Takadanobaba, Shinjuku Ward, while the 22-year-old woman victim was livestreaming.
Flowers are lain near the spot where Airi Sato was stabbed as she was live streaming in front of Takadanobaba Station in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward on Tuesday. Sato died of her wounds later that day.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 12, 2025
Dozens of wounds found on Tokyo stabbing victim
Takano is suspected of stabbing Sato with a knife while she was live-streaming a video on a street in front of Takadanobaba Station in Shinjuku Ward.
Investigators from the Tokyo Metropolitan Police examine the scene where a woman in her 20s was stabbed on Tuesday morning in Tokyo's Shinjuku Ward.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Mar 11, 2025
Man arrested after fatal stabbing of woman in Shinjuku Ward
The suspect is said to have approached the woman in her 20s near Takadanobaba Station and stabbed her without warning as she walked, apparently livestreaming, investigators said.
Tokyo police arrested a 17-year-old boy on suspicion of attempted murder after another 17-year-old was stabbed to death on a street in the capital's Adachi Ward early Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 24, 2025
17-year-old arrested in connection with stabbing death on Tokyo street
Police officers found the victim stabbed in the right side of his chest with a knife.
Officers from the Austrian State Criminal Police are seen near a cordoned off area after a knife attack near the main square in the city center of Villach, in southern Austria, on Saturday.
WORLD / Crime & Legal
Feb 16, 2025
Syrian arrested after deadly stabbing attack in Austria
Syrian asylum seeker was arrested after a teenager was stabbed to death and five other people were wounded in southern Austria on Saturday.
Two people have been arrested on suspicion of covering up a patient's murder at Michinoku Kinen Hospital in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Feb 16, 2025
Former Aomori hospital head and doctor arrested over alleged murder coverup
The two brothers are accused of issuing a false death certificate saying the patient died of pneumonia when he was actually killed by another patient.
Yusuke Yaguchi leaves the Nagano Chuo Police Station in the city of Nagano for his transfer to prosecutors Monday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 28, 2025
Nagano stabbing suspect altered appearance and hid before arrest
Authorities pieced together the suspect's movements using security footage and citizen tip-offs, ultimately tracking him down at his apartment 3 kilometers away from the scene.
People pray for the victims of a deadly stabbing attack outside Nagano Station, on Sunday.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 27, 2025
Nagano stabbing suspect sent to prosecutors after deadly attack
The apparently random stabbing follows two other similar attacks, including the high-profile killing of a teenage girl at a Kitakyushu McDonald's last month.
A Nagano Prefectural Police official speaks during a news conference in the city of Nagano on Sunday following the arrest of a suspect in a deadly stabbing days earlier.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 26, 2025
Police arrest suspect in deadly Nagano stabbings
The suspect, a man in his 40s, is believed to have fatally stabbed one person and injured two others in front of Nagano Station days earlier.
A woman lays a bouquet of flowers outside Shenzhen Japanese School following the murder of a 10-year-old Japanese child who was on his way to the school, in Shenzhen in September.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 24, 2025
Chinese court gives death penalty to man who killed Japanese boy
Friday’s sentence was pronounced on the same day the trial opened in an unusually quick decision.
The bus stop in Suzhou, China, where a bus used by a Japanese school came under attack from a man, since identified as Zhou Jiasheng, in June last year
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Jan 23, 2025
China sentences man to death over Japanese school bus attack
A Chinese court deemed the death penalty as appropriate in view of the "extremely heinous" nature of the crime, which resulted in the death of a bus attendant.
Magnitude 5.5 earthquake jars Tokara Islands amid flurry of seismic activity
A strong quake struck off the Tokara Islands on Thursday afternoon, with the island chain having recorded around 1,000 earthquakes since a burst of seismic activity first began on June 21.
Onosato's yokozuna promotion causes rare quirk in new sumo rankings
Newly promoted yokozuna Onosato holds a copy of the latest banzuke ranking in Anjo, Aichi Prefecture, on Monday.
A prophesied disaster (likely) won’t strike Japan this weekend
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Over 900 earthquakes strike Tokara islands in space of two weeks
A screenshot shows many quakes occurring in the Tokara islands over the past 30 days, in this image taken from the U.S. Geological Survey website.
Ghibli’s Isao Takahata exhibit shows how beloved anime is made
“The man who planted Japanese animation” exhibition includes a variety of sketches, drawings and animation cels from Isao Takahata films such as color design for characters by Michiyo Yasuda from "Grave of the Fireflies."
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