Four teenage boys were arrested in the killing of a woman at her home. The police say they might have been directed by a new ...

Japan’s crime rate rose for the fourth consecutive year in 2025, propelled by a record-breaking fraud wave and an increase in ...

Tsuneo Asai, a Japanese civil servant, discovers that his late wife was having an affair. He identifies the culprit. He stalks him onto a train. They disembark at a lonely spot, and Asai confronts the ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate who was charged by U.S. authorities with trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the U.S. Justice ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A riveting murder-mystery based on a prize-winning Japanese crime novel is at the heart of the upcoming limited series “The Aosawa ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. has blacklisted four senior members of a Japanese crime syndicate in an effort to disrupt illicit activities and undermine their financial stability. The Treasury Department ...

U.S. prosecutors have charged a Japanese mob leader with conspiring to traffic nuclear material from Southeast Asia to Iran. Prosecutors say Yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa showed samples of nuclear ...

A Japanese national who federal authorities say is a key figure in Japan’s organized crime group, known as Yakuza, pleaded guilty Wednesday in New York to conspiring to traffic in weapons-grade ...

Kotaro Isaka's The Mantis was nominated for an award this year in the UK, a sign of rising interest there in Japanese crime mystery novels Japanese crime mystery novels, once under-represented in ...

The alleged leader of a crime syndicate based in Japan admitted in federal court Wednesday to charges accusing him of conspiring to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar, believing the materials ...

WASHINGTON — The leader of a Japanese crime syndicate who was charged by U.S. authorities with trafficking nuclear materials from Myanmar pleaded guilty on Wednesday, the Justice Department said in a ...