Authorities in Japan say one person is dead and two others are injured after a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train ...

The suspect has been detained and was taken to hospital with injuries. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the incident was "too appalling for words" and offered condolences. It is one of Japan ...

Bereaved relatives placed flowers and offered prayers Tuesday at the site of a mental health clinic in Osaka where 26 people perished in a fire set by an arsonist in 2021. The fire was started at ...

Police in Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 42-year-old ex-firefighter on suspicion of arson in 10 incidents. Police said Akira Suzuki is accused of setting fire to two vacant wooden ...

KYOTO—Shinji Aoba, perpetrator of the worst postwar mass murder in Japan, was sentenced to death on Jan. 25 for killing 36 people in an arson attack at a Kyoto Animation Co. studio in 2019.

Osaka, Dec. 17 (Jiji Press)--People offered prayers Tuesday for the victims of an arson attack that killed 26 people at a clinic in a multitenant building in the western Japan city of Osaka three ...

In a statement on Wednesday, the Japanese bank said the ex-staffer was formally charged by authorities in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture on suspicion of robbery, attempted murder, and arson of an ...