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  • Robbery Group Suspected of Involvement in Over 30 Offenses Across Japan

    A criminal group suspected of involvement in the robbery and murder of a 90-year-old woman in Tokyo ...

    January 25, 2023

  • Investigators: Rental car found in connection to Tokyo robbery-homicide

    Police have found the rental car that was seen driving near the Tokyo home of the 90-year-old victim...

    January 24, 2023

  • Fukuoka Murder Suspect: ‘I Don’t Wanna Let Her Go’

    FUKUOKA — A man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing his ex-girlfriend in Fukuoka a week ago ha...

    January 24, 2023

  • Kumamoto Court Orders Govt to Pay Damages over Forced Sterilization

    A southwestern Japan court ordered the national government on Monday to pay a total of ¥22 million i...

    January 24, 2023

  • Police Evacuate Residence After Second Phone Seized

    Police are guarding an evacuated Tokyo residence after the address was found on the second smartphon...

    January 23, 2023

  • Tokyo Police Suspect Kanto Robbers also Committed Similar Crimes in Hiroshima, Yamaguchi Prefectures

    Members of a group involved in a series of robberies in the Kanto region are suspected of also commi...

    January 23, 2023

  • Second Smartphone Discovered in Connection with Tokyo Robbery-Homicide

    Another smartphone has been discovered containing information connected to the robbery-homicide in w...

    January 22, 2023

  • Woman, 90, Killed in incident thought linked to recent Kanto area robberies

    A 90-year-old woman was found dead Thursday in her house in Komae, Tokyo, in a suspected robbery-ho...

    January 20, 2023

  • Mother Helped Son Secretly Take Photos of Women in Bathing Facilities

    Local police in Nagoya have rearrested an unemployed man and his mother for allegedly taking voyeuri...

    January 20, 2023

  • Man Arrested Over Fatal Stabbing Revealed to be Former Boyfriend of Victim

    FUKUOKA — The man arrested on suspicion of fatally stabbing a woman this week in Hakata Ward, Fukuok...

    January 19, 2023

  • Suspect Arrested over Woman’s Murder in Fukuoka

    FUKUOKA — The Fukuoka prefectural police on Wednesday arrested a man on suspicion of fatally stabbin...

    January 18, 2023

  • 13-Year-Old May Have Stabbed Sleeping Mother Over Smartphone

     MAKINOHARA, Shizuoka — A 13-year-old girl taken into custody on suspicion of fatally stabbing her m...

    January 18, 2023

  • Tokyo High Court Upholds Acquittal of ex-TEPCO Execs over 2011 Fukushima Meltdown

    Former executives of what was then Tokyo Electric Power Co. were acquitted on Wednesday by the Tokyo...

    January 18, 2023

  • Kyoto Company Falsely Identified Products as Electric Bicycles

    KYOTO — A Kyoto company was selling bicycles that it falsely identified as electric bikes, in violat...

    January 18, 2023

  • Man Fined for Telling Woman She Looks Like Coronavirus

    A man who insulted a woman by telling her, “You’ve got a face like the coronavirus” was fined by the...

    January 17, 2023

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