Man arrested over ¥15 million December burglary in western Tokyo
Tokyo’s Metropolitan Police Department arrested a 39-year-old man in connection with a ¥15 million burglary that took pl...
Father may have left Kyoto boy's body near home after killing him, sources say
KYOTO - The father of an 11-year-old boy who went missing in March and was found dead in Kyoto Prefecture in April may h...
Risk of hantavirus transmitting between humans is low, health ministry says
The possibility of a human-to-human transmission of the hantavirus — the deadly virus that fatally infected some passeng...
Survey shows 93% of sex-crime survivors want more done to stop victim-blaming
“Why didn’t you just run away?” “You must have been looking for men.”Those targeted in sexual crimes in Japan continue t...
New York judge releases purported Epstein suicide note
A U.S. federal judge on Wednesday released a document described as a suicide note purportedly written by the late Jeffr...
Ted Turner, former owner of Braves and CNN, dies at 87
Ted Turner, the former owner of the Atlanta Braves who signed baseball's first free agent, has died at 87.Turner Enterpr...
Japan’s SDF fires anti-ship missiles for first time in Philippine military drills
Japan did away with another postwar taboo on Wednesday, firing off Type 88 surface-to-ship missiles for the first time f...
South Korean judge who hiked ex-first lady's jail sentence found dead
Seoul - A South Korean judge who more than doubled the former first lady's prison sentence last month was found dead on ...
Cruise ship linked to hantavirus outbreak to sail to Canary Islands after evacuations
The Dutch-flagged expedition cruise ship Hondius at the center of a deadly hantavirus outbreak will set course for the C...
Kyoto suspect told others son was missing before school called home, police say
Yūki Adachi, the adoptive father of an 11-year-old boy over whose death he was arrested last week, had told others that ...