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Police in Yokohama have arrested a a 36-year-old man on suspicion of killing his 66-year-old father. Police said Ryo Matsuura, a company employee, is accused of punching his father Akio in the face several times last week at his father’s apartment in Kanazawa Ward, Kyodo News reported. On Saturday night,… Read
Tokyo prosecutors said Monday they will not appeal a recent high court order granting a retrial to a former professional boxer previously sentenced to death over a 1966 quadruple murder case in central Japan, laying the stage for his exoneration. With prosecutors deciding not to file a special appeal with… Read
Four men suspected of coordinating robberies across Japan from the Philippines under the name of "Luffy" and other pseudonyms were indicted by Tokyo prosecutors on Monday for theft in connection with separate fraud cases. Kiyoto Imamura, Toshiya Fujita and Yuki Watanabe, all 38, and Tomonobu Kojima, 45, were initially arrested… Read
Police in Tokyo said Monday they are looking for a man who robbed a massage parlor and injured two female employees with a knife. A passerby in Bunkyo Ward’s Yushima district placed an emergency phone call at around 9 a.m. on Sunday, and said that “a woman covered in blood… Read
Japan on Monday marked 28 years since the Aum Shinrikyo cult's nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured over 6,000. At Kasumigaseki Station in the Japanese capital, officials observed a moment of silence at a memorial service at 8 a.m., around the time… Read
Fukushima prosecutors have indicted, without arrest, three former members of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force on suspicion of indecent assault in a reopened investigation into the sexual harassment of a female ex-colleague. Prosecutors re-examined the sexual harassment of Rina Gonoi, 23, that occurred while she was serving in a unit at… Read
Police in Utsunomiya, Tochigi Prefecture, have arrested a 24-year-old police officer on suspicion of violating the public nuisance law after he used his smartphone camera to film up a woman’s dress. According to police, the incident occurred at around 4 p.m. on Saturday at a shopping center. Kyodo News reported… Read
Police in Gotemba, Shizuoka Prefecture, have arrested a 26-year-old man on suspicion of killing a 30-year-old colleague on the premises of the building company where they both worked. Police said Yoshiki Katsumata, a construction worker, is accused of killing his work colleague Yuki Katsumata (not related) at around 8 p.m.… Read
A 32-year-old man was arrested Saturday for arson after a fire gutted the house where he lived in Nagano, apparently killing three of his family members, police said. Three bodies believed to be those of the man's father, Hitoshi Nakamura, mother and grandmother in her 90s were found after the… Read
A teenage girl was arrested on Saturday for allegedly killing a man at a hotel in Toyama Prefecture , police said. The 17-year-old has admitted to killing 21-year-old Kazuki Izumoto, saying she "strangled" him to death, according to the police. The two are believed to have known each other. The… Read
