Japan’s crime rate rose for the fourth consecutive year in 2025, propelled by a record-breaking fraud wave and an increase in ...

The number of crimes in Japan surged by 17 percent to 703,351 in 2023, marking the second straight year of increase and ...

The Pentagon’s inspector general has initiated a review of how US military personnel in Japan complied with policies on preventing and addressing violent crimes after reports of sexual assaults in the ...

The archbishop of Tokyo, Cardinal Isao Kikuchi, is renewing calls for abolition of the death penalty in Japan and for clemency for two men, one convicted of murder and already sentenced to death, the ...

The British law was introduced after the murder of a teenager who was killed with a ninja sword near his home in 2022 Britain's ban on ninja swords has sparked a debate in Japan on knife ownership and ...

Some things are just too horrifying. From the AP today: At U.S. military bases in Japan, most service members found culpable in sex crimes in recent years did not go to prison, according to internal ...

May 17 (Reuters) - A former Japanese gangster shot his son, his daughter and two police officers on Thursday, and was holed up in his house with a female hostage, keeping police at bay. It is the ...