The former CEO of collapsed bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox will go on trial in Tokyo next week on charges stemming from the disappearance of hundreds of millions of dollars worth of the virtual currency from its digital vaults. Frenchman Mark Karpeles — once the high-flying ...
A 42-year-old man on Wednesday pleaded not guilty to killing five people with a survivor knife nearly two years ago on Awaji Island in Hyogo Prefecture. "This is clearly a case of false accusation plotted by 'operatives' who hijacked my brain with an electromagnetic wave ...
Convicted church killer Dylann Roof was found competent to stand trial for a second time Monday, allowing jurors to consider whether he should be imprisoned for life or put to death. The decision means the sentencing phase of his trial, now set to begin on ...
The Nagoya District Court has sentenced a man to life in prison for killing a woman in 2011 and causing his girlfriend's death in 2009. Keiji Hayashi, 44, was convicted Wednesday of strangling restaurant worker Madoka Morioka, 27, before abandoning her body in a lake ...
A liver cancer patient who was fighting drug possession charges dies after spending his last days in court lobbying for medical use of marijuana in Japan.
Prosecutors indicted two men Friday on suspicion of intimidating lay judges during the trial of a senior member of a yakuza crime syndicate in the first such charges since Japan's lay judge system was introduced in 2009. The two are Toshimi Kusumoto, a former gang ...
An American man charged with raping and murdering a 20-year-old Okinawan woman says he did not intend to kill her.
A trial involving a senior member of a crime syndicate may be halted after two men are held for menacing lay judges.
A court in India's capital ruled Saturday that there's enough evidence in a stalking and sexual harassment case for former U.N. climate chief Rajendra Pachauri to stand trial. Judge Shivani Chauhan announced that the next hearing in the case will be on July 11, the ...
The trial of accused killer Takuya Katsumata saw more than seven hours of his interrogation videos emerge, showing him flip-flop from one stance to another during the process. On Tuesday, prosecutors at the Utsunomiya District Court demanded life imprisonment for Katsumata, who stands accused of ...
The Yokohama District Court on Monday sentenced an 18-year-old boy to between four and six and a half years in prison for his part in the death of a younger boy on a riverbank in Kawasaki last year. The ruling said the boy repeatedly slashed ...
A German court says a 95-year-old man will go on trial next month on 3,681 counts of accessory to murder for allegedly serving in the Nazis' Auschwitz death camp. Hubert Zafke is accused of working as a medic in Auschwitz in an SS hospital. Prosecutors ...
