Tokyo police have arrested a 22-year-old man on suspicion of threatening to kidnap preschoolers and female students.
Police say the unemployed man, Yomogida Haruto, sent the message to the website of Tokyo's Adachi Ward in June and July, saying that he will kidnap 334 kindergarteners and female students. He is suspected of obstructing business.
NHK has learned that a prefectural assembly member in central Japan's Nagano Prefecture has denied allegations that he murdered his wife.
Maruyama Daisuke was arrested on Monday. He is suspected of suffocating his wife, Nozomi, to death at their home in Shiojiri City in September of 2021.
Japanese veteran handball star Miyazaki Daisuke has been arrested on suspicion of violence against a female acquaintance.
Police say the 39-year-old is suspected of pulling her hair at a hotel in Nagoya City early on Monday morning.
Police in Japan have arrested a Vietnamese national on suspicion of illegally butchering a pig in his apartment in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo.
Tran Xuan Cong was arrested on Sunday. Police suspect he butchered a pig in the bathroom without the necessary permit between July and August.
Police in Tokyo have arrested a former member of the popular Japanese male pop group TOKIO for allegedly riding a motorcycle while under the influence of alcohol.
The police say they arrested 48-year-old Yamaguchi Tatsuya on Tuesday after he hit a car waiting at a traffic light. An amount of alcohol nearly five times the legal limit was detected in his breath when they were called to the scene.
Tokyo police have arrested 14 people suspected of being involved in fraudulent business practices carried out by Japan Life, a failed health equipment dealer.
Those arrested include the 78-year-old former chairman of the company, Yamaguchi Takayoshi.
Tokyo prosecutors have served lawmaker Akimoto Tsukasa a fresh arrest warrant over new allegations of witness tampering in connection with a government-backed casino resort project.
The Lower House member is awaiting trial on a charge of accepting bribes from a Chinese company that aimed to take part in the project. At the time, Akimoto was a state minister in charge of Japan's integrated resorts, which include casinos.
A teenager has been arrested after two people were shot dead during protests in the US state of Wisconsin over the police shooting of a black man.
Protests have been continuing after Jacob Blake was critically injured when he was shot in the back seven times at close range on Sunday in the city of Kenosha.
Public prosecutors in Tokyo have arrested a lawmaker on suspicion of seeking false testimony in a court trial. Lower House member Akimoto Tsukasa has already been indicted in a bribery case related to a government-led casino resort project.
The prosecutors arrested Akimoto on Thursday.
Police in Tokyo have arrested a cyclist on suspicion of damaging a car in a possible bike rage incident.
The 42-year-old man is alleged to have deliberately hit a car with his bicycle in Suginami Ward last week.
Japan's former Justice Minister Kawai Katsuyuki and his wife Kawai Anri have been arrested by prosecutors over an alleged violation of the election law. Both are lawmakers, formerly with the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Prosecutors arrested the couple on Thursday and searched their offices.
Former Justice Minister Kawai Katsuyuki and his wife Anri have been arrested by prosecutors over an alleged violation of the election law. Both are lawmakers, formerly with the main ruling Liberal Democratic Party.
Prosecutors say Katsuyuki used 220,000 dollars of campaign funds in cash handouts to local politicians and other individuals to secure votes for his wife.
Japan's former Justice Minister Kawai Katsuyuki and his wife Anri, both lawmakers, have been arrested by prosecutors over an alleged violation of the election law.
Authorities say this Dec. 30, 2019, image from security camera video shows Michael Taylor, center, and George-Antoine Zayek at passport control at Istanbul Airport in Turkey. Taylor, a former Green Beret and his son, Peter Taylor, 27, were arrested Wednesday in Massachusetts on charges they smuggled Nissan Motor Co. Chairman Carlos Ghosn out of Japan in a box in December 2019, while he awaited trial there on financial misconduct charges. / Getty Images