Authorities in Japan say one person is dead and two others are injured after a knife attack Wednesday night outside a train ...

The suspect has been detained and was taken to hospital with injuries. Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the incident was "too appalling for words" and offered condolences. It is one of Japan ...

Police in Inashiki, Ibaraki Prefecture, have arrested a 42-year-old ex-firefighter on suspicion of arson in 10 incidents. Police said Akira Suzuki is accused of setting fire to two vacant wooden ...

Bereaved relatives placed flowers and offered prayers Tuesday at the site of a mental health clinic in Osaka where 26 people perished in a fire set by an arsonist in 2021. The fire was started at ...

KYOTO—Shinji Aoba, perpetrator of the worst postwar mass murder in Japan, was sentenced to death on Jan. 25 for killing 36 people in an arson attack at a Kyoto Animation Co. studio in 2019.

A rash of attacks against facilities linked to Korean residents in Japan, including cases of arson and vandalism, cannot be allowed to pass unnoticed. Some of the incidents are still under ...

Dozens were killed and injured in a blaze which is suspected to be an arson attack ... "It's one of the best and largest animation firms in Japan," Tokyo-based film commentator Yuichi Maeda ...

In a statement on Wednesday, the Japanese bank said the ex-staffer was formally charged by authorities in Japan’s Hiroshima Prefecture on suspicion of robbery, attempted murder, and arson of an ...