A Ministry of Justice expert panel has proposed making it a punishable offense for customers to solicit prostitution ...

Nara police have arrested a 26-year-old care worker for allegedly assaulting his older sister with a heavy dumbbell at their ...

Nogizaka46 member Iroha Okuda appeared at a press conference in Tokyo on August 31 to promote her upcoming appearance in the ...

Ibaraki police have arrested a 31-year-old man on suspicion of stealing metal valves from rice paddies in Kasama City amid a ...

An apparel brand has come under heavy fire after posting a video showing a smartphone taped to a moving Tokyo Metro train ...

These were the chilling words 26-year-old Taiki Hirokawa told investigators months before he carried out a brutal murder-suicide at a busy commercial complex in Ikebukuro, leaving his 21-year-old ...

OITA — Oita Prefectural Police have arrested a 58-year-old man on suspicion of abandoning the body of a missing teenage girl in a mountainous area, after he admitted to meeting her online and hinted ...

Tokyo Metropolitan Police are continuing their search for a suspected arsonist 25 years after a devastating blaze ripped through a Kabukicho commercial building ...

A massive blaze completely destroyed a historic, post-war shopping arcade near the Ise Grand Shrine on Monday afternoon ...

Earlier this year, the health ministry revealed that the number of suicides among elementary, middle, and high school ...

Hyogo police have re-arrested a 77-year-old senior yakuza member and an accomplice for allegedly concealing millions of yen ...

Former TBS announcer Rina Yamamoto is shedding her conservative broadcaster image to take on her first swimsuit gravure in a ...