A local high court upheld a decision to strip a hunter of his permit over allegations he fired in the direction of buildings during a culling. Read more
The Internet Hotline Center made requests to internet service providers to remove a total of 3,379 online postings of crime-related information in 2023, with some 90% of these consisting of... Read more
You probably don’t think of guns when you think of Japan, but Hokkaido’s hunters do. They say newly proposed gun laws may make their lives more dangerous. Later, we discuss something less da... Read more
A group of 30 Ezo deer flee through a cold lowland in eastern Hokkaido. A frozen creek separates them from open farmland and the hope of escape. They hop between tall patches of long-dead we... Read more
Police have put a 62-year-old senior member of a yakuza crime syndicate on the wanted list for allegedly fatally shooting a man at a Starbucks outlet in western Japan over the weekend. Read more
Wayne LaPierre resigned as leader of the National Rifle Association on Friday, ending a long career that saw it became one of the most powerful lobbies in Washington, only to have its presti... Read more
After days of hunting in vain for clues to a gruesome double murder of a man and his baby daughter in a forest east of Prague last week, Czech police called off their search for evidence lea... Read more
The police plan to restrict the act of inciting unlawful possession of guns, such as explaining how to make them on the internet, following the assassination of former Prime Minister Shinzo... Read more
The Saitama District Court on Tuesday handed a life sentence to a 68-year-old man accused of fatally shooting a doctor and attacking other medical workers last year during an 11-hour standof... Read more
A Japanese woman in her 60s was one of three faculty members fatally shot by a gunman earlier this week at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, the Consulate General of Japan in San Francisc... Read more
