Yamanashi Prefectural Police are ramping up their vigilance against corn thefts, a specialty product of this central Japan ...

In one case a visually impaired man was bilked out of almost US$5,000, with police warning many more have been similarly hit.

This is the heartwarming moment kind-hearted police officers help a duck family cross a road in Japan. Footage shows the officers assisting the mother duck and her ducklings in Obihiro City, Hokkaido, ...

The remains of Pattie Wu-Murad of Connecticut have been identified, more than two years after she first went missing in 2023 ...

The remains of a missing hiker from Storrs were recently found in Japan more than two years after she went missing on a hike.

A Singaporean man has been arrested in Japan for allegedly committing indecent acts with a teenage boy at a hot spring, ...

During the Yakuza's heyday in the 1960s, the group operated internationally and boasted more than 184,000 members, according ...

Patricia Wu-Murad went missing on April 10, 2023. She was last seen in Totsukawa, 70 miles southeast of Osaka, and planned to ...

Police have arrested a female high school student who allegedly used a knife to attack and injure three other students at a ...

NHK has learned that Japanese police have obtained arrest warrants for two Vietnamese nationals suspected of directing a ...