The town of Yamamoto has announced severe disciplinary actions against three municipal employees, including a couple who ...

Chiba police have arrested two men for allegedly torturing an acquaintance by forcing him to drink bleach and burning him ...

Kanagawa police have launched a corpse abandonment investigation after the body of a newborn baby was discovered at a garbage ...

The CEO of telecom company Mobicom has issued an apology after executives from the firm sparked a massive grassland fire that ...

Tokyo police have arrested a 30-year-old female university student for allegedly extorting cash from the manager of soapland ...

TOKYO (TR) – The buxom stars who dominated Japan’s gravure idol industry during the 1990s and the Heisei era (1989-2019) are stepping back into the spotlight — and out of their clothes — as they ...

A 43-year-old man accused of embezzling 22 million yen he found on the street told a court that he believed the cash was a ...

Fukuoka police have re-arrested four individuals, including the alleged leader of a Cambodia-based telephone fraud ring, for ...

A hostess at a luxury Roppongi club who sparked outrage for her bizarre behavior in front of press cameras following a drug ...

Yokohama Prison announced on Monday that a male inmate in his 40s has died in an apparent suicide inside his single cell ...

Hyogo police have arrested a 57-year-old office worker after he repeatedly dumped onigiri (rice ball) wrappers on a private ...

Osaka police arrested a male suspect on suspicion of attempted murder after a man in his 60s was stabbed in the neck outside ...