STORY: A Japanese man who was convicted of murder more than sixty years ago was exonerated on Thursday after a retrial. A district court cleared 88-year-old Iwao Hakamada of the murders of four people ...

A Japanese man has pleaded not guilty to causing the death of a woman by having her drink 32 shots of tequila, allegedly with ...

BEIJING (AP) — A Japanese man was sentenced Wednesday to three and a half years in prison in China on espionage charges, according to the Japanese embassy in Beijing. The embassy did not identify the ...

TOKYO — A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan’s Justice Ministry said. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter ...

TOKYO (Reuters) - A Japanese serial rapist was convicted on Tuesday of abducting Briton Lucie Blackman eight years ago and dismembering and abandoning her body, but was acquitted of killing her. The ...

BEIJING, May 14 (Reuters) - The case of a Japanese man jailed for 12 years in China was handled according to the law, a Chinese foreign ministry spokesperson said on Wednesday after he was asked about ...

A man convicted of murder for killing and dismembering nine people in his apartment near Tokyo was executed Friday, Japan's Justice Ministry said. Takahiro Shiraishi, known as the “Twitter killer,” ...

In the most ridiculous case of gamer rage, a 27-year-old man from Hitachi City, Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan, has been charged with sending death threats to Nintendo. Court statements reveal that the ...

Shoji Morimoto explained that he gets a lot of business from people who just need a companion to do something simple with. It can be hard to make friends in life, especially as an adult. With everyone ...