The suspect, Kunihiko Katsuta, is serving an indefinite prison sentence for the 2004 murder of another girl in Okayama Prefecture.

A point did snap City's five-game losing streak, but did little to inspire confidence ahead of Sunday's daunting trip to ...

The group, linked to crimes in at least 10 prefectures, is believed to have sent stolen items to Vietnam for resale.

The commitment comes despite a new management buyout proposal from the founding family of Seven & I Holdings valued at about $59 billion.

Truong My Lan, 68, is appealing her death sentence after being convicted in April of embezzling $12.3 billion from Saigon ...

The Shizuoka District Court last September acquitted Iwao Hakamata, ruling that investigation authorities had fabricated ...

Sanae Takaichi stands as the closest woman to breaking the glass ceiling and becoming Japan's first female prime minister.

Between 2012 and 2021, the average period from the finalization of a death sentence to its execution was about seven years ...

Several high-profile cases show some early limits to the billionaire's influence even as he has emerged as one of the ...

The number of visitors to Japan between January and September 2024 reached 26.88 million, setting a record-breaking pace.

Russian troops swept through swaths of Ukraine in early 2022 before being pushed back to its east and south. The 1,000 ...

The remarks by industry officials come after Tokyo and Brussels launched a new security and defense partnership earlier this ...