Police here have arrested a 54-year-old city council member for allegedly pocketing 60 million yen in cash to rig the bidding ...

A nationwide wave of water meter thefts is sweeping across the nation as perpetrators target vacant apartments to cash in on soaring copper prices ...

Following the arrest of a 51-year-old unemployed man for the murder of his former girlfriend in Izumi City last month, Osaka ...

Police here have arrested a 43-year-old man from Aichi Prefecture for allegedly stealing the shoe insoles of a teenage girl ...

Police in Sapporo City have arrested a 46-year-old mother on suspicion of murder after her 6-year-old son was found strangled ...

Police and local rescue crews are scrambling to locate a 76-year-old woman who disappeared into the night from a historic hot ...

TOKYO (TR) – Stiff, hierarchical corporate meetings in Japan are getting a radical makeover courtesy of a Shibuya Ward-based ...

Former AKB48 member and television personality Tomomi Itano announced on Wednesday that she is leaving her longtime talent ...

Japanese consumers are being held hostage by a merciless combination of skyrocketing crude oil prices, a historically weak ...

Singer-songwriter Ai Otsuka, 43, is stepping into the producer's chair for the first time to back a new high school girl duo ...

Fifty years after the Lockheed bribery scandal erupted, a former close aide to disgraced Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka claims ...

The days of supposed chivalry are mere memories now, pushed aside by the vicious crimes of desperate extortionists - and the ...