The conviction of a former American executive of Nissan Motor Corp on charges of helping fugitive former Chairman Carlos Ghosn hide income was upheld by a Japanese appeals court Tuesday, which also rejected prosecutors' bid to overturn his acquittals on other counts. Greg Kelly, a lawyer and former executive vice president at… Read
Police in Suzuka City, Mie Prefecture, have arrested a 35-year-old man on suspicion of violating the Road Traffic Act last November by driving aggressively, which resulted in obstructing an ambulance taking a patient to a hospital. According to police, Kazuhiro Kawamoto, a company employee, is accused of cutting in front… Read
A man who threw a homemade pipe bomb at former Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida at a 2023 campaign event denied that he intended to kill the politician as his trial began Tuesday at a court in western Japan. Ryuji Kimura, 25, is charged with attempted murder for the April 15, 2023 attack… Read
Osaka prefectural police have arrested a 28-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of dumping the body parts of a man in a mountainous area of Higashiosaka City, Osaka Prefecture. Police said Hiroto Oki, who lives in Osaka City, has admitted to taking the body parts in a suitcase to Mount Ikoma… Read
A Japanese court on Monday sentenced a former member of the House of Representatives to three years in prison, suspended for five years, for sexually assaulting a junior high school girl at a karaoke parlor in Tokyo in August last year. The Tokyo District Court found Tamotsu Shiiki, 58, guilty… Read
Police in Hiroshima City have arrested a 22-year-old university student on suspicion of attempted murder after he attacked a 22-year-old woman and her parents, both in their 50s, with a hammer at their home. According to police, the incident occurred at around 3 a.m. on Sunday in Asakita Ward. Kyodo… Read
Police in Iwamizawa City, Hokkaido, have arrested a 16-year-old boy on suspicion of attempting to kill his mother, who is in her 40s, by strangling her. According to police, the incident occurred in the living room of their home at around 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Hokkaido Broadcasting Corp reported. The… Read
Police in Saitama City have arrested a 33-year-old unemployed man on suspicion of assaulting and robbing a woman in her 30s as she walked along a street. According to police, the incident occurred at around 7 p.m. on Friday in Minuma Ward as the woman was on her way home,… Read
An 18-year-old high school student was arrested Saturday for allegedly stabbing to death a woman on a southwestern Japan island last year, police said. The suspect is accused of fatally stabbing Fusako Kikuchi at her home on Tokunoshima Island in Kagoshima Prefecture on Nov 20. He admitted to the charge,… Read
A woman in Shirakawa City, Fukushima Prefecture, was defrauded of 18 million yen after believing a false online message from a man claiming to be a celebrity. According to police, the woman, who is in her 50s, received a message last November via a SNS app from the man, which… Read