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

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

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.

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 ...

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

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