The advisory panel to Japan's justice minister has submitted an outline of proposed amendments to the criminal procedure law ...

A 49-year-old man was fatally stabbed and his wife wounded by an intruder who then set their house on fire, in Higashihiroshima City, Hiroshima Prefecture, on Monday. According to police, a neighbor ...

Police in Kyoto have arrested a 24-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of having sex with a 14-year-old junior high school student in his car and stealing her cash. According to police, Ryuhei ...

Police in Sapporo, Hokkaido, have arrested a 72-year-old man on suspicion of public indecency. According to police, the man is suspected of exposing his lower body on a subway car traveling between ...

People in Japan were swindled out of a record 324.11 billion yen ($2.1 billion) in 2025 in investment and romance scams on ...

A 17-year-old boy was killed and two other boys were wounded after they were stabbed in Osaka's Dotombori entertainment district late Saturday, police said. Ryoga Iwasaki, 21, who fled from the scene ...

The Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department has referred two U.S. Marines, aged 26 and 20, to prosecutors on suspicion of theft and trespassing after they allegedly broke into bars after closing time and ...

Two women and one young girl were found dead in an apartment in Mizunami City, Gifu Prefecture, on Wednesday morning, in what police believe was a murder suicide. According to police, at around 2:20 a ...

There are a whole lot of reasons to not make the decision to lead a life of crime. Aside from the moral implications of profiting via harmful or otherwise unscrupulous means, there’s the legal ...

A man on trial for the murders of an American man and his wife and daughter in Hanno, Saitama Prefecture, on Christmas Day in 2022, on Monday pleaded not guilty. Jun Saito, 43, told the Saitama ...

A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a senior member of a crime ring that orchestrated robberies across Japan from the Philippines to life in prison as prosecutors had demanded. Toshiya Fujita, 41, ...