Surge in inbound tourism and immigration, coupled with ease of permit system, has led to more foreigners unfamiliar with ...

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

A 56-year-old man died and two other passengers were injured after a local train's window was shattered, apparently by a pipe ...

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

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

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

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

After more than two years of desperate searching, the family of Connecticut mom Pattie Wu-Murad has received confirmation ...