Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is evolving into the "Japanese version of the FBI" in its approach to a rise of ...

The Tokyo High Court recently ordered the Tokyo metropolitan and national governments to pay compensation in a lawsuit ...

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A review of police-department operations, a U.S. Justice Department civil-rights investigation and an internal-affairs investigation into Tsingine's shooting are expected in coming months. Garnett's ...

A dozen people have been taken to the hospital after a man used pepper spray at a shopping mall near Tokyo after an argument, according to police and media reports.

In Tokyo, yakuza offices cannot operate within 200 meters of schools, child welfare centers, community halls, museums, ...

A disturbing new trend dubbed the “Bumping Man” – or Butsukari Otoko – is surfacing in UK cities, with women reporting violent, unprovoked shoulder-barging attacks by strangers on the street.

TOKYO (AP) — Tokyo police and customs have made what is believed ... a French woman on suspicion of attempting to smuggle into Japan about 40 kilograms (88 pounds) of ketamine in a suitcase.

Wild Style really was the impetus for making [Tokyo Pop], because Kaz and I saw that and we both went, “We have to show this film in Japan.” Kaz convinced a Japanese studio to buy the film and hire us ...

When all else fails, ask your local koban (police box). Japan’s already-famous lost-and-found system is getting even smarter. Today, around 30 organizations, including Tokyo’s train lines, Haneda ...