Steve Lee Hayes had carved letters onto a pillar of a gate of a shrine in Shibuya and was arrested Wednesday on suspicion of ...

TOKYO — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that started from an overbearing investigation and wrongful conviction that had ...

Japanese police have seized more than 100 smartphones stolen in a series of robberies that took place in metropolitan Tokyo and beyond, investigative sources have said. The police investigations ...

A Japanese police chief has apologised in person to a man who spent 58 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Iwao Hakamada, 88, was kept on death row for more than 50 of those years before ...

Police officers in Japan will wear body cameras on a trial basis to record questioning in public spaces, the police agency said Thursday. Police officers will start wearing the name card-sized cameras ...

(Mainichi/Kota Yoshida) TOKYO -- Some prefectural police forces in Japan will introduce body cameras in fiscal 2025 on a trial basis to verify that officers are carrying out their duties ...

World Series viewership hit record levels in Japan as the Los Angeles Dodgers won the series over the New York Yankees.

Japan does not have an extradition treaty with the Scandinavian country. Greenland is an autonomous territory of Denmark and ...

A local police chief in Japan has apologized to a man who was acquitted after spending nearly 50 years on death row in a 1966 quadruple murder case. Takayoshi Tsuda, chief of the Shizuoka Prefectural ...

TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese police chief on Monday apologized in person to Iwao Hakamada for his decades-long suffering that ...

A Japanese police chief has apologised in person to a man who spent 58 years in jail for a crime he didn't commit. Iwao Hakamada, 88, was kept on death row for more than 50 of those years before being ...