A man in western Japan has been arrested on suspicion of providing false information to rent a server to set up a blog ...

At around 3 a.m. on December 9, in the town of Komatsushima, Tokushima Prefecture, a laundromat worker discovered that someone had left a DVD on a counter within the facility, with the following ...

The Gifu District Court has handed down a 13-year prison sentence to a 24-year-old man for setting fire to his apartment in Takayama, Gifu Prefecture, which spread to the apartment above his, killing ...

Police in Aira City, Kagoshima Prefecture, have arrested a 24-year-old man on suspicion of assaulting a woman he knew, as well as leaving a threatening message on her answering machine. According to ...

Police in Tokunoshima town, Kagoshima Prefecture, have arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 57-year-old wife in the mountains of Tokunoshima. According to police, Morihito Toyo, a ...

A Japanese court on Tuesday sentenced a man to 12 years in prison after driving a Porsche at up to 268 kilometers per hour on an expressway near Tokyo and crashing into another car, killing a couple ...

Online piracy of Japanese entertainment caused an estimated 5.7 trillion yen in revenue loss in 2025, a survey by a Tokyo-based watchdog showed, nearly tripling from about 2 trillion yen in the ...

The Saitama District Court has handed down an eight-year prison sentence to a 32-year-old man who recruited four men to rob a house in Tokorozawa City, Saitama Prefecture in 2024. The robbery is ...

Professional baseball player Ryutaro Hatsuki of the Hiroshima Carp has been arrested for allegedly using etomidate, a regulated substance known by some as a "zombie cigarette" or laughing gas, ...