The head of the Shizuoka District Public Prosecutor’s Office is expected to meet the former boxer recently acquitted of a quadruple murder over his lengthy legal battle. Read more
Iwao Hakamata, the world’s longest-serving death row prisoner, has maintained his innocence for decades. Read more
No one can know the mind of Sydney shopping mall killer Joel Cauchi, but psychiatrists say one underlying cause of his rampage is evident: he had schizophrenia, stopped his medication and fe... Read more
An attacker who fatally knifed six people in a Sydney mall was shot dead by police in the city's beachside suburb of Bondi on Saturday, police said, as hundreds fled the scene. Read more
A man, thought to be the suspect on a wanted list for one of a series of terrorist bombings in the 1970s, lived in Kanagawa Prefecture as an employee of a building contractor for decades und... Read more
A Japanese man sentenced to death for an arson attack on an anime studio that killed 36 people in 2019 said he accepted the court's verdict, a local media report said. Read more
A man suspected of being on a wanted list for decades over one of a series of bombings in the 1970s may have worked in Kanagawa Prefecture near Tokyo before being admitted to hospital for ca... Read more
A former member of a radical Japanese leftist group behind deadly bombings in the 1970s may finally have been caught after almost 50 years on the run, investigative sources said Friday. Read more
A Japanese man sentenced to death for an arson attack that killed 36 people at an anime studio appealed the ruling on Friday, a court said. Read more
A 45-year-old man was handed the death penalty on Thursday for setting a Kyoto Animation studio on fire in 2019 and killing 36 people in one of Japan’s deadliest mass murders. Read more
