Zama

Suspected serial killer Takahiro Shiraishi has been served a second murder warrant in connection with nine people whose bodies were found dismembered in his apartment in Kanagawa Prefecture.

Police on Wednesday referred to prosecutors a 27-year-old man who has admitted to killing nine people, as well as dismembering and storing their body parts in his apartment near Tokyo. Takahiro Shiraishi was served an arrest warrant Monday for killing one of the nine, Aiko ...

The suspect in the serial killings in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, is served the first of what is expected to be nine murder warrants in connection with the dismembered bodies found in his apartment last month.

Readers who may be contemplating homicide should be aware that concealing evidence of your crime — referred to in the language of jurisprudence as corpus delicti — is next to impossible. Even before the emergence of DNA testing and other forensic techniques, killers determined to ...

The beheading of nine, lured by a suspected serial killer after tweeting suicidal thoughts, sparks debate about social media in a country with one of the world’s highest suicide rates.

Japan looks for ways to censor social media postings and engage depressed youths after the serial killings in Zama shine a light on its suicide problem.

Nine people dismembered by a serial killer in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, are formally identified by the police, including three female high school students.

The Metropolitan Police Department announced Monday that one of the nine people mutilated by a suspected serial killer in Zama, Kanagawa Prefecture, has been identified as Aiko Tamura of Hachioji, Tokyo. The suspect, Takahiro Shiraishi, 27, is likely to be rearrested on suspicion of murder. Investigators ...

The name of a female high school student from Gunma Prefecture is added to the potential list of people killed after nine dismembered bodies were found in a man’s apartment in Kanagawa Prefecture.