Japanese police arrested an 86-year-old suspected gunman Tuesday who had barricaded himself in a post office with two hostages after injuring two people at a hospital earlier in the day.

Thai police arrested 74-year-old Japanese yakuza (crime syndicate) boss Shigeharu Shirai—who had been on the run for 15 years—after Facebook photos of his tattoos went viral.

But police in Japan’s Aichi prefecture saw something else when they looked at the body of Takashi Saito, a 17-year-old sumo wrestler who arrived at a hospital in June.

Saito, 31, has been arrested on suspicion of murder after the human remains of 21-year-old Kaho Miyamoto were located at an ...

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One of the three plaintiffs, Syed Zain, a 26-year-old Japanese citizen of Pakistani descent, says he has been repeatedly stopped by police, including getting searched in front of his home.

A 27-year-old Japanese man has been arrested after police found several dismembered bodies in coolers in his apartment near Tokyo. The man's neighbors reportedly said they noticed a foul smell ...

Teen tourist carves name into 1,200-year-old Japanese temple. The 17-year-old Canadian admitted to police that he was killing time at the Toshodaiji Temple, a UNESCO World Heritage site ...

Japanese police also arrested a 17-year-old boy in February 2018 for creating malware that stole the passwords of cryptocurrency wallets, and another 14-year-old in June 2017, ...

Japanese police arrested an 86-year-old suspected gunman Tuesday who had barricaded himself in a post office with two hostages after injuring two people at a hospital earlier in the day.