Following recent sexual assault cases involving US military personnel, Japanese and US officials will conduct a rare joint ...

Japan’s largest Yakuza crime syndicate has pledged to end its longstanding war with a rival faction and refrain from causing ...

Japanese investigative sources say actor Hirosue Ryoko, who was arrested for allegedly injuring a nurse at a hospital after a ...

Two others died from their injuries later. In the weeks and months that followed, Japanese police responded by arresting dozens of adherents from Aum Shinrikyo, including the group’s leader, Shoko ...

Police in Goshogawara City, Aomori Prefecture, have arrested a 38-year-old unemployed woman and a 28-year-old male acquaintance on suspicion of performing indecent acts on the woman’s elementary ...

Actress Hirosue Ryoko has been arrested by local police after reportedly assaulting a nurse at a hospital in Shimada, Japan.

The film has a 83% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and has been described by one critic as a "stomach-turning masterpiece" - but it ...

Sixteen people were killed during a clash between local security forces and suspected Lakurawa insurgents who had raided villages in Nigeria's northwestern state of Kebbi, police and residents said on ...

As summer looms, a debate resumes over what to do about “teen takeovers” downtown after boy is shot in Streeterville.

Florida is set to execute the 48-year-old Tanzi by lethal injection for the 2000 rape and murder of former Miami Herald ...

Japanese Tosa dogs are bred in Japan to take part in dog fighting ... these dogs have a reputation for being hostile to both ...

Twenty-one men have been arrested in Singapore for suspected online child sex activities, the police said in a statement on ...