A 64-year-old man was found dead in his home in the city of Kobe on Thursday in an apparent hanging, while his sister-in-law, ...

A 25-year-old police officer from Funabashi Police Station in Chiba Prefecture has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting his 3-week-old daughter by dropping her on the floor, causing serious ...

TOKYO (Kyodo) -- Eight people, some of them elderly, died in multiple fires across Japan on Saturday, according to police.

As more passengers take to the skies in the post-coronavirus pandemic era, thefts are recurring aboard planes flying in and ...

Japanese death-row inmate Chisako Kakehi, dubbed the "Black Widow" after she used cyanide to kill her elderly lovers​, has ...

Japanese police continued their search on Monday for the man who fatally stabbed a 15-year-old schoolgirl at a McDonald’s restaurant in southwestern Japan. Witnesses described the assailant as a ...

The mother, who has been arrested by the Kanagawa police on suspicion of murdering the son, admitted to the allegations.

David Maensiri was reportedly having a row with his girlfriend on Sunday, when Japanese passer-by tried to intervene as eyewitnesses claim punches were thrown before a knife was pulled ...

Thai police say a fire broke out at a hotel in a popular tourism area in Bangkok, killing three foreigners and injuring ...

Police in Tokyo have arrested a 77-year-old man on suspicion of killing his wife, who was in her 70s, by running over her with his car. According to police, the victim was found collapsed in a parking ...

Responding to the not guilty ruling in the retrial of former boxer Iwao Hakamada over a 1966 quadruple murder in Shizuoka ...

A woman was shocked to return home from holiday with her family to find that her Filipino maid had disappeared, along with ...