Japanese man pleads guilty to deadly knife rampage on shinkansen
A man pleaded guilty Thursday to murdering a passenger and trying to kill two others in a random knife attack on a shinkansen last year. According to the indictment, Ichiro Kojima, 23, seriously wounded two women in their 20s with a machete on the Nozomi ...
The prime minister confirmed the “severe prejudice and discrimination” they endured as relatives of Hansen’s disease patients.
Guilty ruling finalized for Chiba mother complicit in fatal abuse of 10-year-old daughter
A Chiba court said Friday a guilty verdict for a woman who was complicit in her husband's fatal assaults on their 10-year-old daughter has been finalized. Nagisa Kurihara, 32, did not appeal the ruling by Wednesday's deadline. The Chiba District Court sentenced her in late ...
Ex-head of bankrupt kimono firm gets 30 months in prison for fraud
The former head of a now-bankrupt kimono rental firm was sentenced to 30 months in prison Wednesday for swindling banks of funds to keep his business running until its abrupt closure before Coming of Age Day earlier this year. Yoichiro Shinozaki, 56, the former president ...
German tourist admits to knife attack on Japanese man in Nagasaki while drunk
A German tourist indicted for attempted murder admitted Wednesday to stabbing a Japanese man in a random attack on a street in Nagasaki last year during his first court hearing. But lawyers for Tobias Gross, 25, told the Nagasaki District Court that they will contest ...
Former TV director gets suspended term for helping commentator take his own life
A former director of a TV program featuring conservative commentator Susumu Nishibe was given a suspended jail term on Friday for helping the 78-year-old kill himself in January. The Tokyo District Court sentenced Tetsugaku Kubota, a 45-year-old former employee of a Tokyo Metropolitan Television Broadcasting ...
Killer of two buried alive at Saga soil treatment plant in 2014 gets life sentence
The Saga District Court on Monday sentenced a 69-year-old man to life in prison for murdering a man and a woman by burying them alive in the city of Saga in 2014. In the trial, prosecutors demanded that Teruyoshi Oho be given the death penalty ...
Man pleads innocent to 2017 murder of Vietnamese girl near Tokyo
The former head of a parents association at a school in Chiba Prefecture pleads innocent to murdering a 9-year-old Vietnamese girl who attended the school.
24-year prison term sought for ex-NHK reporter accused of serial rapes
Prosecutors on Wednesday demanded a 24-year prison term for a former reporter with public broadcaster NHK, who was accused of raping three women in their 20s. Prosecutors said at the Yamagata District Court that Yasutaka Tsurumoto, 29, has not shown repentance for committing "vicious" crimes, ...
Okinawa again loses suit aimed at halting U.S. Futenma base relocation
The Naha District Court on Tuesday rejected Okinawa's latest effort to stop the central government's ongoing construction work to relocate a U.S. military base within the island prefecture. The court ruled the lawsuit filed by the Okinawa Prefectural Government is not subject to a trial, ...
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 ...
Medical marijuana advocate dies of cancer while on trial
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.
