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Okinawa police have arrested a 32-year-old American tourist after he allegedly set fire to an Okinawa hotel last month following repeated warnin…
The boss of Japan’s largest yakuza syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, is plotting a triumphant return to the gang's historic Kobe City headquarters
The parents of a 23-year-old woman who was killed when a suicidal man plunged from a Nagoya apartment building and landed on her have met the su…
In early 2015, Japan’s largest yakuza syndicate, the Yamaguchi-gumi, threw a lavish 100th-anniversary bash
Aichi police have arrested a 40-year-old matchmaking agency executive and four other men on suspicion of fraud for allegedly running a cryptocur…
The Tokyo Metropolitan Board of Education has dismissed a 53-year-old high school teacher who admitted to having sexual relations with a female…
Tokyo MK, a prominent Tokyo-based taxi operator, has issued a public apology after its owner was caught throwing chairs and hurling verbal abuse…
Tokyo Metropolitan Police are hunting for a knife-wielding mugger who ambushed and robbed a woman on a street in Musashino City on Sunday
A heavy-handed police crackdown on runaway youths gathering in Shinjuku Ward's Kabukicho red-light district is backfiring, driving vulnerable te…
Fukushima Prefectural Police have arrested a 27-year-old restaurant manager after he left the corpse of his younger sister inside his home
Hyogo Prefectural Police have arrested a 46-year-old former yakuza member for allegedly ordering a 2020 shooting at a rival gang's residence in…
Thieves make off with hundreds of ready-to-harvest peaches in Fukushima, Aomori
Tokyo Metropolitan Police have arrested two Chilean nationals accused of stealing four luxury watches worth approximately 200 million yen
A man in Sapporo City successfully thwarted a telephone scammer posing as a Tokyo police detective after recording the bizarre conversation
Two historically warring yakuza syndicates appear to be burying the hatchet following a series of highly secretive meetings
Shizuoka Prefectural Police have arrested three men accused of ambushing a teenage drug dealer with tear gas and a crowbar during a violent late…
Tottori police have launched an investigation after nearly 40 kilograms of sliced bread and suspected bird entrails were found illegally dumped…
Police have arrested a 17-year-old high school student in Yatsushiro City accused of soiling a female classmate's personal belongings with his b…