A 24-year-old man dressed in Batman's Joker costume attacked passengers on a Tokyo train line on Sunday evening, injuring 17 people as many party-goers headed into the city centre for Halloween ...

Police arrested a 27-year-old firefighter on suspicion of setting a warehouse in Hino, Tokyo, on fire early Saturday, the police said.

“If it was arson, it could happen anywhere, any time,” he said. “That makes me worried.” The Japanese police reported 786 cases of arson in 2020, about half as many as a decade earlier.

In 2001, an intentionally set blaze in Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment district killed 44 people — the country's worst known case of arson in modern times. Japan Facebook ...

TOKYO — The suspect in a 2019 arson attack at an animation studio in Japan pleaded guilty Tuesday on the first day of his trial to the murder of 36 people.

At least 12 cases of arson involving small trucks, motorbikes, bicycles and vacant houses have been reported in Tokyo's Kita and Adachi wards since Friday. Police said Sunday that six fires were ...

At least 33 people have died in a suspected arson attack at a renowned animation studio in the ... The death toll from Thursday’s fire was greater than the Tokyo sarin gas attack on a subway in ...

Tokyo's controversial Yasukuni shrine, often seen as a symbol of Japan's wartime aggression, had its main wooden gate set on fire early Monday in a suspected arson attack, a shrine official said. A ...

An arson attack at an animation studio in the city of Kyoto in 2019 killed 36 people and injured dozens. A 2001 fire at a building in Tokyo's Kabukicho entertainment district killed 44 people.

The fire marked the worst mass killing in Japan since a 2001 arson attack on a building in Tokyo’s Kabukicho district, which killed 44 people.

Last week’s attempted arson at the Korean Culture Center in Tokyo fortunately ended without success. The center is where Korean cultural content is featured and consumed by an interested public ...