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.
The Tokyo Metropolitan Police have sent papers to prosecutors on a man in his 20s for the alleged online slander of professional wrestler and reality show star Kimura Hana, who committed suicide in May.
The 22-year-old Kimura was a cast member on the Japanese reality show "Terrace House" broadcast by Fuji Television.
A Japanese court has sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for killing nine people at his apartment.
The remains of eight women and one man, aged 15 to 26, were found at an apartment in the city of Zama in Kanagawa Prefecture, near Tokyo, in October 2017.
A court in Tokyo has sentenced a 30-year-old man to death for killing nine people at his apartment in 2017.
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A man was removed from a domestic flight in Japan after refusing to wear a mask on the plane.
Carrier Hokkaido Air System says the crew spotted the man without a mask before takeoff on the flight from Okushiri Airport to Hakodate Airport in Hokkaido, northern Japan, at around noon on Saturday.
The Japan Coast Guard has rescued another man during a search for a missing Panamanian-registered cargo ship off an island in southwestern Japan.
Coast Guard patrollers say the man was found unconscious on Friday morning about 120 kilometers off Amami Oshima in Kagoshima Prefecture.
Rescue workers have found a man dead in a huge disused underground tank in Yokohama City, near Tokyo. The man is believed to be a missing construction worker in his 60s.
The man was found dead at around 5:30 p.m. on Friday in the cabin of the earth-moving machinery he was operating when he apparently fell into the tank on Tuesday evening.
Sony Corp. on Friday unveiled more than two dozen titles for its upcoming PlayStation 5 console, including a sequel to its hit "Spider-Man" title and the latest "Gran Turismo" racer, as it builds anticipation ahead of the planned year-end launch.
As rival Microsoft Corp. prepares the launch of its next generation Xbox Series X console for this year's holiday season, the presentation gave a first glimpse of how games will look when played on Sony's device.
A man has died in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, while waiting to be hospitalized for the coronavirus.
Prefectural officials say the company employee in his 50s had been recuperating at home because he had mild symptoms. He lived alone.
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Officials in western Japan's Mie Prefecture say a man who was a passenger on a cruise ship that was hit by the coronavirus has again tested positive after recovering from infection.
The man, who is in his 70s, first tested positive for the virus on February 14 while he was onboard the Diamond Princess, which was under quarantine off Yokohama.
Police in central Japan plan to question a man infected with the new coronavirus who visited a restaurant after the health authorities told him to stay at home.
City officials in Gamagori, Aichi Prefecture, say the man's infection was confirmed on March 4, but he went to the restaurant later the same day. The staff notified health officials because the man, who is in his 50s, said he had the coronavirus.
A high court in Japan has found a man guilty of sexually abusing his biological daughter, reversing a lower court acquittal that triggered a wave of protests.
The Nagoya High Court on Thursday sentenced the father to 10 years in prison as sought by prosecutors.